[NTLUG:Discuss] OT -- Recording Sound to computer

[Paul Ingendorf]

Your biggest concern is impedance matching.  Make sure that your tape player
has a line level output (it will say it on the jack).  If you have this then
you should have no problems hooking it into the computer on the line input.
Not using line output into the computer can cause damage to the sound card.
Not that it will but the possibility is there.

You can also use a small potentiometer to create a voltage divider between
the output and the input that will prevent you from exceeding the voltage
limit on the sound card then just tune it so the sound level is appropriate.
Following this will give you the best results from the hardware when you
begin to record as tape itself is going to sound bad enough without the
addition of other factors that can amplify the noise or actually cause
damage to your computer.


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Dennis Myhand
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:45 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT -- Recording Sound to computer



Hi All:

I ask this here because I have not gotten an answer in non-Linux forums.
My wife is a language teacher and wants to record some audio tapes to CD.
Can I simply run a line from the tape deck to the Line-In on my sound card?

TIA, Dennis in Victoria


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