Scanning audio from cassettes

Hi all, I wonder if I could trouble you with a few basic questions beginning.  I'm sure I could work this if I lived enough documents to support, but since I'm on a deadline on an immediate project any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have some old audio cassettes containing material having sentimental value than my family want me to scan and save to .wav or mp3 files.  Some time ago, I used 1.5 Audition for a similar project.  I decided to go to the Audition 3, which installed properly on my new Acer Aspire 5745 G computer laptop.

My plan was to play the tapes on an old Radio Shack tapes and player patch its output to the input of the microphone of the laptop.  The Platinum output tape seems not amplified (it was designed as a component of system - its release is a pair of RCA plugs).  So, although I have a RCA to 1/8 "stereo cable, I think I may need to run through a preamp?"

A few questions: I wonder:

(1) when I tried setting up a recording of the hearing session, warning came a box that said I currently have a driver of sound card on selected DirectSound (windows Sound of the hearing), and for best results, I must select an ASIO sound card driver via Edition > Audio Hardware Configuration.  I went there, but does not see any alternative to pilot.  What should I do?  I have to hunt around for a specific to the sound card in my laptop?  Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

(2) once I have this solved, I figured I'd start a new session, hit ' Arm for Record "on tracks 1 and 2, click on the button Save and playback of the tape.  I notice that, in the left pane, it seems to be recorded on two files, follow 1_001.wav and monitoring 2_001.wav.  I want to end up with a single stereo file.  I have to configure differently?

(3) does not seem that I would need a preamp between the turntable to cassette component and enter the laptop microphone?  I guess I could try it with and without, but was curious about what is typical.

Thanks for any help possible.

Well, you have a number of questions.

First of all, don't worry too much about the Direct Sound vs ASIO warning.  Your integrated sound card probably does not have an ASIO driver and differences will make no real difference to a simple recording of two tracks.

However, you can see the microphone input on your laptop will not do what you want.  You're right that they released tape recorder is "not amplified" but it's still a "line source" rather than a microphone - and it will be something like 60 dB louder than a typical micro.  Don't worry if you're not familiar with "dB" - just take this to mean "much stronger."  You can be able to compensate by turning the levels down a long way... but you will work at the end of the beach where small moves on the level can make a great leap in the level.

The other problem you might have is that several portable microphone inputs are mono (not), designed for the type of microphone that you would use for working with Skype or Microsoft Live chat.  If this is the case, it is part of the reason why you get two mono channels recorded, rather than a single stereo track - the two ways to get exactly the same stream.

Normally, if you're in you're multitrack as it may seem, by clicking on the arrow at the right end of the input for channel selection you use you should have the choice between mono or stereo, and also of the source you're going to record.  Selecting stereo, you should get a single stereo track - but if my guess on the mono mic right, this won't help you much.

No, you don't need a preamp for a source line, but you may need a different sound adapter to let you take in a source stereo line level.  There are a lot out there - if you want to use microphones to record music it would be useful to make a decent, but if it's just your project of tape, something like a 202 Behringer or Alesis 'Linelink' would be probably everything you need and quite cheap.

Hope this helps

Bob

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