Record from cassett player

[Hai Ly Hoang]

I have a cassette player (a walkman). It has a socket for headphone. My
computer has a sound card with 3 socket LineIn, Mic, Speaker. Which socket
of the sound-card, i should connect to my walkman (Mic or LineIn) ?
Can you explain me the reason ?
Thanks in advance .

 

[Gerritjan]

I have a cassette player (a walkman). It has a socket for headphone. My

computer has a sound card with 3 socket LineIn, Mic, Speaker. Which socket
of the sound-card, i should connect to my walkman (Mic or LineIn) ?
Can you explain me the reason ?

use LineIn, the mic. input is too sensitive.

 

[John]

I have a cassette player (a walkman). It has a socket for headphone. My
computer has a sound card with 3 socket LineIn, Mic, Speaker. Which socket
of the sound-card, i should connect to my walkman (Mic or LineIn) ?
Can you explain me the reason ?
Thanks in advance .

Unfortunately neither one may work well.

I tried looking into that because I tried recording some tapes and I
didnt have the usual tape decks that used to be the normal thing years
ago.

Back then you would have a decent tape casette player /recorder - a
separate non-portable big unit that plugged into your stereo
amp/receiver. Those have a proper LINE OUT from the tape deck AND
the amp.

But now all you see are small walkmans and mini-all in one cd players
with casette decks - boomboxes.

I tried finding one with a line out and only a very few had them and
they were usually on the high end of the cost of the ministereos .

The headphone out signal was too high - even when you turned it down
by volume and it tended to distort the input.

You can try but you might have to find a friend with a decent tape
deck - you know a TEAC, SONY etc tape seperate tape deck. The kind you
see selling nowadays are usually dual tape decks.

 

[DaveW]

Use the line-in. It has the right voltage range.

 

[Rick K]

Hai,
First, try the speaker-to-line-in as mentioned by others.
If that doesn't work satisfactorily, you might consider
trying an attenuating dubbing cord from Radio Shack,
going to the mic in.
Some say to attenuate when going from headphone to line in.
I don't know the numbers, but you can try it.
At RadioShack.com, the cords are $3.99.
Search for "Attenuating", or for part numbers 42-2461 and 42-2152.
The differences are length and plugs.
They are mono, so you will need to buy other cables, or save money
by cutting up old stereo cables and making what you need,
assuming you are connecting to or from stereo jacks.
Don't insert mono plugs into stereo jacks.

You MAY be able to find a knowledgeable person at a Radio Shack store,
someone who knows more than how to sell cell phones and satellite dishes.

Here are some links that may help with the explanation:
http://k-lug.org/pipermail/klug/2003-May/007162.html
http://www.w5bbr.com/soundbd.html
http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/interface.html
http://www.storm.ca/~ve3iay/hookups.html
Maybe you will want to make your own attenuating interface
after reading these sites. <g>

Luck to you,
Rick

 

[kony]

I have a cassette player (a walkman). It has a socket for headphone. My
computer has a sound card with 3 socket LineIn, Mic, Speaker. Which socket
of the sound-card, i should connect to my walkman (Mic or LineIn) ?
Can you explain me the reason ?
Thanks in advance .

You should connect it to the Line-In on the sound card.
Typical Walkman have noisey amps so you may see best results having
the sound card volume set in the mixer to the highest volume possible
without distortion, and the walkman volume lowered. Previewing the
input before recording may be necessary to fine-tune the volume.


Dave