#Best cassette to digital converter usb Pc

The beta version also has better fine tuning of the microphone controls and a handy xml file for saving track information so one does not have to write the same info over and over. There is now an additional frequency smoothing slider, which offsets most of the flutiness. Since writing the above I have tried the new Beta version of Audacity and found that it has extra refinements on the noise removal tool. Or does anyone more experienced out there know the answer. Unless you know of more Audacity add ons or features that might be able to tackle this issue, I've got a bit stuck: do I just get used to the new fault or do I stick with hiss and hum.

#Best cassette to digital converter usb Pc

I have found that video tape copying doesn't hiss and have also used the DVDR's timer facility to record radio progs as 'video', which I've then split on the pc so copying audio tapes to dvdr, may get a clearer result, if very time consuming! One thing I could try - but it is very long winded - is to copy to our DVDR instead of the pc or laptop. I have not tried recording from the headphone socket, but as I can hear the hum through this, and the fluty effect comes after noise removal, I can't see it helping. This all didn't sound too bad listening on the laptop, but it proved very noticeable and irritating when converted to mp3 and played on ipod or blackberry: this being the reason for wanting to convert, it came as a blow after spending quite a few hours (weeks) experimenting with settings. (The 'tinkling' effect may be small clicks that come from my hard drive when it is working hard - though it is only a few months old and much quieter than any I've had before.) I have tried spliting the tracks and nudging the time base to get them better aligned, but when they are 'perfectly' stereo, the effect is all the more unsettling through headphones.

The fluty effect is caused by the filter and even occurs if one just records mono. If I remove noise at the minimum setting, the flutiness is minimised but still detectable, but the 'silenced' places then have a 'tinkling' sound on them, that requires a second filtering, and increases the flutiness.

I find that the filter is very good at removing noise, but it imposes a fluty, breathless character to the voice (These are all speach tracks, so there is plenty of 'space' on the tracks to sample noise from.). Unfortunately, I have no tape players (3 out of three) that don't hum when on mains power, and speed is not reliable when running on batteries. One has to pay more attention to the level meters and the 'track' can look pretty small when it is actually just right. (After buying a phono to jack lead, I later found the 'video' one from my camera was actually better!)ДЇirst issue was with the recording volume: the spectrogram tempting one to fill the channel, when in fact this is much too loud.

I have a mains/battery tape player with phono output, and am taking this to the microphone jack socket of the laptop. Thanks for any helpful pointers - certainly the little 'walkman sized' converters look tempting if they are any good and can be trusted.ДЄ bit further down the line I am having some fiddly issues with Audacity and audio tapes. (Most of what I would be copying is speech from old radio progs, and a background hum is particularly intrusive in that case.) Or should I buy one of these small dedicated converter decks/players: and if so, which should I be considering, and are there any that I should avoid? Is it best to carry on as I was going to, and hope that the hum/motor noise from the stereo will not be digitised or could be filtered out? That has me wondering what is the best way to make the conversion? Having not done any tape dubbing for a while, when I did a straight tape to tape copy, I was quite aware that a background hum from the system itself had been recorded. I had been about to start converting using Audacity and a jack lead from my ordinary old 'stereo all in one'. I notice that since last I looked at this problem there seems to be a range of purpose made cassette tape to mp3 converters available.