low quality cassette to file convert

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  1. RCD111

    RCD111 Member

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    hi, I wanted to record my audio cassettes to my PC.I'm using some cable like this:



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    the cable works fine ,but when i tried to record my cassettes with it, it scrambled the sound up and you couldn't understand anything.

    I plugged one end of the cable into the headphone plug of my cassette player and the other end into the microphone plug of my PC. I recorded it with "audacity" and because that just scrambled it up I tried it with Windows Movie Maker on the Narration thing.But it was the same.
    can anyone help me ???
    Thanks
     
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    olyteddy Regular member

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    A 'headphone output' is much too strong a signal for a 'microphone input'. You need a 'line input' on your sound card to record from the headphone jack. You should set the volume knob on the cassette player a little past half way and adjust the recording volume in Audacity until the level meter never quite touches the right hand end.
     
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    well,thanks but I've got a laptop(HP Pavilion dv9000)and it doesn't have a line-in.Isn't there any other way?
     
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