I used to do a lot of cassette duplication of spoken audio material. While you’ve been given advice about what should be best, there is another view to consider. With the playback head for my TEAC costing in excess of £100, I'd hate to buy a deck for £100 on Ebay only to find that I had to spend another £100 on a new head for it. It's a fantastic way for an unscrupulous person to shift a deck with a worn out playback head as the buyer has no way of inspecting it prior to purchase. PS I'd recommend NOT sourcing a cassette deck via Ebay. I only mention "hot" recordings as being a problem due to a lack of headroom on the playback electronics. The playback electronics are capable of reproducing cassette content up to 21kHz (-3dB point relative to a -20dB reference recording with a Metal tape), assuming it's there in the first place. If the recordings aren't too "hot" then I'd recommend something along the lines of the TEAC V-1050 which is basically a Tascam studio deck without the whistles and bells or 19" rack-mount front. I can't remember which models off-hand, but some of them didn't follow the industry-standard EQ-curve for recording or playback and were overly "toppy" on the playback side with a consequently worse S/N ratio compared to many other cheaper decks on the market. I've never heard of the first brand (Nad? I hear Beavis and Butt-head laughing in the background) and the Sony one may be from around the time their quality plummeted, not to mention it's only a 2-head system (again I think that's only important for recording but some googling told me otherwise).Ī quick word of warning regarding the Nakamichis. I assume this will substantially make my endeavor cheaper.Īs some examples, here's two decks I was looking at:
#Dual tapedeck Pc
I considered that Ion Cassette 2 PC thing they make but something tells me the deck is going to be cheaply made and I'd be better off using audio line outs with a quality deck rather than USB with a cheap one.Īlso please keep in mind I don't need a dual tape deck since I will not be making copies. I really appreciate any input you guys can give me. I also heard 3 head players are what to look out for but since I am not using the recording function, just the playback, I'd also like to know how much that means to me. I am assuming I will have to go the ebay route, but if I can head to Best Buy or Circuit City that's fine too.
#Dual tapedeck for free
I also can't have this break my bank since I am doing this for free I need to spend less than $150 or so. Anyway, I read so much stuff about capscans (sp?) and Dolby HX and other terms I never heard before agreeing to do this. I am going to use the RCA out of the deck into my PC to capture the sound, and I can then check out some good programs to fix up the quality a bit.
I was wondering what to look for in regards to the best sound quality possible (without costing me a fortune). These are tapes of songs that never made it anywhere else but cassette. This is not a situation where I am too cheap to buy old albums on CD or MP3. I am working on a project where I will be taking cassettes and putting them on CDs.
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