recording old audio cassettes (SOLVED)

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recording old audio cassettes (SOLVED)

Post by pdrose » Wed May 08, 2013 3:49 am

Newtime user. Don't know if question got posted. Trying to record old cassettes using headphone jack to line-in. Only hearing out of one speaker. Can it get it to play out of both?

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Re: recording old audio cassettes

Post by kozikowski » Wed May 08, 2013 6:30 am

Audacity > Preferences > Devices > Recording > Channels > 2-Channel (Stereo).

Make sure your audio cable plug is all the way in.

Do you have two sockets like this?

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

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Re: recording old audio cassettes

Post by pdrose » Wed May 08, 2013 9:15 am

yes

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Re: recording old audio cassettes

Post by pdrose » Wed May 08, 2013 12:55 pm

That didn't work. Still only hearing from one speaker.

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Re: recording old audio cassettes

Post by billw58 » Wed May 08, 2013 4:30 pm

Check your cable. Is it a 1/8" or 1/4" headphone jack? Do the plugs on both ends of the cable have three connections?

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/How_ ... _equipment
Note the first picture.

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Re: recording old audio cassettes

Post by pdrose » Wed May 08, 2013 8:52 pm

They are mini jacks with two ridges. I believe they're 1/8 (the same plug that goes into the "line-in" on the iMac.

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Re: recording old audio cassettes

Post by pdrose » Wed May 08, 2013 9:35 pm

Got it! I pushed both jacks in hard and it must not have been making a good connection, because now it works. Thanks!

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Re: recording old audio cassettes (SOLVED)

Post by steve » Thu May 09, 2013 5:20 pm

Marked as solved.
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