On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 02:44, Cameron Matheson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 January 2002 19:51, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > > convert it to an audio file on my computer. > > Thanks. > > This thread intrigued me, so I'm trying to record this Bad Religion tape, but > I'm not sure where the volume on my cassette deck should be... i tried > putting it all the way up, but that makes it all static-y, so should I have > it all the way down, or at listening level or what? Also gramofile only > detected 2 tracks and i think that there should be more like 15.
gramofile has a built in audio level meter which display while recording. Aim for about 2/3 on that; a good place to start is to put the cassette deck volume at about 50%, and use a mixer to put your line in volume at about 50%, then tweak from there, remembering that you probably don't want either of those two volumes to be at an extreme. The actual recording volume will be the result of both of those volume settings, so you don't want either one to be at an extreme. Gramofile missed the other tracks because the static level was high enough that it thought the static was actually signal. The other thing gramofile does is report statistics about what percent of the incoming signal was over-driven; if you get anything more than a few samples that get clipped, you'll probably notice the loss in sound quality at those points, so you should probably reduce the volume and re-record. I set my brother-in-law up with gramofile to get some old vinyl records, and we had the same problem with not detecting tracks until we had the volume set correctly. HTH, -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Technology Coordinator Center for Educational Outcomes at Dartmouth College
