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capture audio from reel to reel and save as MP3 output

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rivbyte

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Hello,
I am not quite sure where to park this post, so here I go. Moderator, please feel free to move it to a more appropriate forum if you wish. thx


I have several old band tapes on reel to reels, and wanted to know if Pinnacle Studio 14 HD can capture the audio using the DVC-100 USB device, or could I even use something like Cool Edit Pro,or something in NERO9, to save as a MP3 output?

I have a Sony Stereo-corder, not sure, just wanted to know if that would work before I drag it out of storage. I think it must have audio R/L RCA jacks, and so does the DVC-100 Dazzle device.

I did a search for recording off of a reel to reel, and the basics would be to plug in RCA jacks from the Source- reel to reel's Line-out, or tape-out into the computer's LINE-IN RCA jack. Then they.... (they being a Google search result) talk about using "Audacity", to perform this capture.

If Cool-Edit Pro, or NERO9 won't help me do this, then what would I possibly have on my computer that would? I haven't tried the Nero WaveEditor4 feature before.

These tapes were recorded in stereo, so I would want the best sound out as possible.

With Nero9,Cool-Edit Pro 2.0, and Studio14,I just was not sure if any of these would capture audio only.

I really hate to go out and buy another hardware/software title, but if I have to, to accomplish this task, then I will.

I thought if I simply plugged in the R/L audio jacks from an outside source into the computer, something would open up to help me....
 
Some have suggested me using the AUDACITY AUDIO EDITING PROGRAM for reel 2 reel capture, save/archive as a FLAC file then encode to MP3, to burn to a CD.

In researching the AUDACITY software, I noticed what they have that will only work with my WINDOWS 7 64 BIT, is the AUDACITY BETA 1.3 version, which is not fully tested, and is still in the development stage.

This BETA requires minimum 4GB RAM and 2.0 GHz CPU, I'm good there, as I have a Intel Core2 Quad 6600 - 2.40GHz, and 8GB DDR2 Ram.

They say I could download this, but some things could go wrong, and may not be stable. Is this my only options as a audio editing title? it does sound like it does a lot. Thank you all.
 
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