Topic: Old Cassettes... digitizing them... enjoying them

[therodge]

I have a question about this too.  I'm converting an old cassette to digital and this is what gear I have:

Sony TC-WE475  (player)
Onkyo HT-R500 (reciever)
NJB3

Should I not even fool with the reciever and record straight from the player RCA Out to my JB3 Line In or should I go player to reciever rca out to JB3 Line In?  I definitely wish I had a good A/D converter on my hands but I don't.  Any quick suggestions?

[therodge]

Ok, That's what I was thinking.... asked that while I was in the middle of transferring without the reciever.  Thanks for the quick response!

[Karl]

Ok, That's what I was thinking.... asked that while I was in the middle of transferring without the reciever.  Thanks for the quick response!

Also, given that the jb3 analog-in can add some hard drive noise, I would run the signal in as hot as you can and turn the gain on the jb3 down if need be.  (but also watch for brickwalling)

[KingReptile]

I love the sound of those Analog tapes just wish I had more of them..So far I have just transfered them to dat 48K.Makes me wanna go buy a WM-D6 and a Ice Cream cone...

[Kyle]

Can anybody suggest a quality cassette deck (besides a dragon) that would be ideal. 

Tascam 122 mkIII

I may be wrong about this, so correct me if I am - I believe that the Nakamichi decks actually write the information to a smaller strip of tape than a regualr deck. A regualr cassette is used, but the deck writes to the center portion of the tape, with no information being written to the outer edges (not sure if I explained that very well). If you play a 'regular' tape back on a Nak deck, the deck can not read all of the info on that tape. That is more or less how it was explained to me - straighten me out if I got it wrong!

[echo1434]

I may be wrong about this, so correct me if I am - I believe that the Nakamichi decks actually write the information to a smaller strip of tape than a regualr deck. A regualr cassette is used, but the deck writes to the center portion of the tape, with no information being written to the outer edges (not sure if I explained that very well). If you play a 'regular' tape back on a Nak deck, the deck can not read all of the info on that tape. That is more or less how it was explained to me - straighten me out if I got it wrong!

Can anyone confirm this?