How can I transfer some old analogue recordings of my band to CD?

Answer 1

This is not as easy as recording CD's to a hard drive but it is possible and is not that hard after some practice. You did not say if these were reel to reel, cassette tape or 33/45/78 rpm records, analogue recordings, as each is different. In the space here I can not provide you with a good clear answer as it would be pages long so go to these web sites (www.the-predator.com and www.pcabusers.net/vinyllp/vinyllp.htm and www.delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm) as they will provide you with tons of information. Also you will need a full recording program form either Roxio or Nero. These run around 75-100 dollars. I know that is expensive but your results is better than any cassette or reel to reel recording ever sounded in the 70's before computers. These companies have free basic editions you can download but they will not fill your needs to make good analogue recordings. Please take my word for this as many here will suggest to do that. Last, I went out and bought a second 300 gig hard drive for my recordings only. I have analogue, digital, tape, you name it, on my hard drive. From Robert Johnson to The Duke, to Led Zeppelin to Beethoven to Frash Air. So it is possable. Good Luck.

Answer 2

Use Easy Cd creator Spin Doctor,and get an adaptor which converts the L/R jacks from your turntable to 3.5mm headphone jack and plug in into the "line in" at the back of your PC.Then use the program or any other similar program to record the input coming through the line in.You must turn on the source though.Then when you have recorded the audio.Then it should be in a .wav format urn this file directly to a blank CD and it should be able to play in a regular CD player,excluding those players that are incapable of reading CD-R/CD-RW discs.

Answer 3

Get a sound card with an RCA input or one of those USB to RCA adapters you can pick up at best buy. This should let you plug in a tape deck and record these to WAV format, then you can convert those WAV files to CD files using Nero or some other CD burning software. Another alternative could be a cassette drive bay in your PC as shown here http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/

You could use one of those gimmicky y adapters but the sound quality will suffer.

Cheers

Answer 4

You hadn't stated what media stores these recordings i.e. vinyl, cassette tape, reel-to-reel, 8-track, etc. Regardless, the media-playing device (i.e. cassette player) will need to interface with your computer. This can often be done via a sound card, video card, or intermediary USB device. There are special considerations when connecting to a turntable so you'll want to read up on that. There now is a USB-turntable that comes with special recording software!

Once the device is interfaced, you'll need software to record it. I recommend http://audacity.sourceforge.net , set to record "What you hear."

Answer 5

one million. Get a headphone twine with 2 male ends. 2. Plug one end into the notebook's audio in jack. 3. Plug the different end into the cassette participant's headphone jack. 4. Use your application of option to checklist the sign onto the notebook. 5. Burn the record to a CD.

Answer 6

if it a tape get a Y adaptor ( 3.5mm jack to 2 L R rca audio) and hook it to ur pc and use audi record in start > all prog > accessorys > entertainment > record, set ur record options to MP3 44100KHz Stereo 44Khz, and enjoy

Answer 7

Record them onto you computer as you might any other sound source, then edit them if need be and finally burn 'em onto CDs

Answer 8

run the player watever it is ... into ur soundcard and use a software recorder ...save as wave or mp3 then burn to cd ...

Answer 9

Go to "http://www.convertvinyl.com/"
They have step by step actions to help you out...