Digitising equipment?

[Bartlomiej Plichta]

Hello,
Since you already have a tape deck, I would recommend a really decent $30 US solution that will work just fine for you. I have a review on my website if you're interested:
http://bartus.org/akustyk/uca202/index.php

If you have a bigger budget, you can't go wrong with the USBPre (also reviewed on my website):
http://bartus.org/akustyk/USBPre/index.php

I hope it helps!
Best,
Bartek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Carew [mailto:margaret.carew at batchelor.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:53 PM
> To: r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au
> Subject: Digitising equipment?
> 
> 
> Hi RNLD
> 
> I’m just about to do a fair amount of digitising from cassette tape and plan to
> both repatriate these recordings to the community and archive them. I’ve
> just read through he RNLD thread on digitising from earlier this year, and so
> am pretty clear on sample rates etc. I also heed the warning that archival
> digitising should be done once and so am trying to get this right in a tight time
> frame.
> 
> I’m now wondering about equipment. I’ve got more time than money to do
> this and am imagining that I’ll use the gear that I normally use to digitise
> tapes. This is:
> 
> A reasonably recent Macbook Pro running OS 10.5.8 A tape deck Yamaha KX-
> W421 (old, but little used and clean) A good quality 3.5mm on each end cable
> to join the computer and tapedeck Audacity, to record the input
> 
> Will this do?
> 
> Regards
> Marg Carew
>