How to record from tape deck to computer?

[Andrew P]

I bought a stereo cable today to record from my tape player to my computer - I thought all I had to do was stick one side of the cable into the headphone jack on the tape player, stick the other side in the input jack on my computer, and record onto Garageband or Audacity. I don't hear any sound or see waves... why does this not work, and what can I do with what I have to make it work?

Thanks a lot!

[hurlingdervish]

i hear it works if you sample the song to a pad on your sp and then export that and open it with a card reader

[Andrew P]

i hear it works if you sample the song to a pad on your sp and then export that and open it with a card reader

ah ok good idea. Thanks a lot.

[hurlingdervish]

i hear it works if you sample the song to a pad on your sp and then export that and open it with a card reader

ah ok good idea.

it was one of the hip hop cats idea around here..not sure who...thank them

[timfromtexas]

i mentioned doing it that way a while back.. it works i do it that way..

there is a keystroke to export the sample on the pad to a wav on the card sometimes it takes a while sometimes its really fast..

its in the manual

if you need help

holler

[yo-yo crunch]

there's no way you need to go through all that trouble. its got to be an output setting in your garageband preferences or computer's system preferences

[hurlingdervish]

there's no way you need to go through all that trouble. its got to be an output setting in your garageband preferences or computer's system preferences

if he doesn't have a good soundcard its going to sound like shit through the computers mic in

[timfromtexas]

it's not really that much trouble then again I don't go to tape first..

[Les Braun]

Hmmm, that was probably juxt...or did I not post a thread about that some time ago?

[yo-yo crunch]

if he doesn't have a good soundcard its going to sound like shit through the computers mic in

not with a mac. i record into my macbook line-in all the time, it sounds great!

[hurlingdervish]

if he doesn't have a good soundcard its going to sound like shit through the computers mic in

not with a mac. i record into my macbook line-in all the time, it sounds great!

thats because you bought one with a good soundcard

[yo-yo crunch]

yeah well he mentioned garageband so i'm assuming his mac is new enough to have a decent soundcard. i got the first generation macbook and i thought that was one of the first machines to have garageband

[Cornelius The Third]

how do u set it up to record from the line in on a mac