I use a Sound Blaster Live. Sound Blaster Gold is a better one. Just
depends on how much the quality matters to you. Not sure what you mean
by "four track". Do you mean Talking Book four track mono? In this
case, nearly anything that is good at all and with aline input will do.
If you're talking about stereo reel to reel tapes, then you'd probably
want a fairly good and quiet card. There are even USB sound cards that
are very good these days. As for software, my favorite for doing the
transfer is Goldwave. Very accessible and easy to use after getting
used to it. You can make very precise edits with it and you can have a
free demo version that lets you do up to 100 operations per boot
session. You can buy it for $45 U.S. at least that's what I paid for
it and don't think the price has changed. If you don't need the editing
function then CDEX is your choice. It is completely free. Will record
sound to several formats including .wav and mp3. For burning the CD I
prefer Nero but EZ CD DA extractor is also very good and it can do
conversions as well as burn. So you have several choices and others on
this list probably have others as well.
B B
Roger
Lauren wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the info. What kind of a sound card do I need to get for
the 4 track player? What is good but affordable?
What is the most affordable software, easy to use for a blind person
to do the actual transfer so I can have either a .mp3 or .wav file on
a CD?
Thanks. It sounds very complicated.
Sincerely,
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Stewart" <paga...@wi.rr.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: converting from 4 track to cd
I do this kind of thing all the time. You need a sound card and an
audio patch cord that will connect between the output of the cassette
machine and the line in of the sound card. To record I prefer
Goldwave as you can not only record, but precisely edit the beginning
and end of each track or segment however you want the files to be and
you can also set the volume level to maximum without distortion and
even do some noise reduction in many cases. CDex will also record
directly in mp3 format and you can turn on normalization to set the
level but there's no editing or noise reduction features. And you'll
also want Nero or other CD writing software and, of course, a CD-R
drive which come with just about every computer these days to turn
the sound files to CD. If you want audio CDs that will play on any
CD player then you'll want to record the files as .wav instead of mp3
but the process is the same regardless of what kind of final CD you
want. Mp3 files won't usually play on audio CD players but should
play on DVD players. Hope this helps.
B B
Roger
Lauren wrote:
Hi,
I have a couple of old recordings that were done on a 4-track
cassette machine. Is there a way I can convert that to an audio cd?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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