input level from cassestte deck causing distortion

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input level from cassestte deck causing distortion

Post by tinkering » Wed May 18, 2011 3:06 pm

I am trying to record from cassette deck to Audacity. I am going 'line out' from the deck to the 'mic' input on laptop. The levels are too high and I can't adjust them down. There is distortion. Also it seems like it might be restricted to mono? The main thing right now though is the distortion.

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Re: input level from cassestte deck causing distortion

Post by billw58 » Wed May 18, 2011 3:34 pm

tinkering wrote:I am going 'line out' from the deck to the 'mic' input on laptop
That's the problem. You need to connect to a line input. If you don't have one, you'll need to get a USB line level interface such as the Behringer UCA-202.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/UCA202.jpg

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Re: input level from cassestte deck causing distortion

Post by kozikowski » Wed May 18, 2011 3:50 pm

That connection on your machine was designed to do this...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCHeadset.jpg

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Re: input level from cassestte deck causing distortion

Post by tinkering » Wed May 18, 2011 6:32 pm

billw58 wrote:
tinkering wrote:I am going 'line out' from the deck to the 'mic' input on laptop
That's the problem. You need to connect to a line input. If you don't have one, you'll need to get a USB line level interface such as the Behringer UCA-202.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/UCA202.jpg

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Thanks for that Bill. I will try to get one of those from eBay.

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