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Old Cassette Demo Tape

Dr. Cheese

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Mar 3, 2004
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I have an old cassette demo tape that i recorded with aband in a studio back in 1985. I listened to it today, and the sound quality is decent, but I know it cannot take much more use. What is the easiest way to put it on CD and then put it in a form that I can share here on TB?

Off topic: The music was an attempt at mid 1980's commercial funk during the last few years when that was viable. The singing and lyrics are so so, but the band was pretty tight, and listening to myself twenty-two years later, I am really pleased at how I keep the groove moving. I used a Rickenbacker 4000 (single pup) and a phaser on some tracks set where the effect was barely noticeable.
 
I've done this by first converting the analog tape to digital by connecting the output of the cassette deck to the sound card input on my computer. Then I recorded the sound using a WAV editor (WavePad). This resulted in uncompressed WAV files to be kept as the "masters". Then the Windows Media Player was used to burn these to a CD.

There are many other ways to do it, but this worked fine for me.
 
I've done this by first converting the analog tape to digital by connecting the output of the cassette deck to the sound card input on my computer. Then I recorded the sound using a WAV editor (WavePad). This resulted in uncompressed WAV files to be kept as the "masters". Then the Windows Media Player was used to burn these to a CD.

There are many other ways to do it, but this worked fine for me.

Thanks!:)