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Tape decks and other audio products can be plugged in directly and will work fine; but not turntables. The packaging and advertising says the box contains everything you need.
If you want to transfer LPs, you need to dig out your receiver or amplifier with phono jack inputs, bring it to your computer work area, and then connect this product to your receiver or amplifier. Either that or buy a separate phono preamp to use instead.
This review is about the current (works with Windows Vista) version of the product. Yes, if you are just doing tapes.
The devil is in the details. If you flip the box over, in fine print, you will see that this product will not work if you plug your turntable directly into it.
No, if you want to do LPs or 45 RPMs.
I used this product on 25-year-old home-recorded cassette tapes and was amazed at both how easy the INport was to use, but also at the great quality of finished product. I highly recommend this product to anyone who has old cassette tapes they wish to preserve by converting them to CD format.
The included software to remove pops and clicks is pretty basic. Most of the products I had seen looked too complicated and the ones that looked simple had gotten bad reviews. It defaults to Inport and I could not hear what I was recording until I made that change. I found it difficult to use. The only thing that was left out of the intsructions was to make sure you have your audio playback settings in the recorder set to your sound card. I found another free program called recordpad which worked well and was more user friendly.I would recommend this product to anyone who has lots of tapes and/or LP's and wants a quick and simple method to convert them.It is great. You may need something else for noise removal.
I first downloaded audacity which is free for download. I have been looking for a long time for an easy way to convert old audio cassettes to CD's. The instructions are concise and easy to follow. After reading positive technical and consumer reviews of this product, I decided to order it. I LOVE IT.I am running Windows XP and it took about 30 minutes from the time I opened the box until I was recording the first cassette to my hard drive.
After the device is connected, the only sound you will hear from your PC is from the device input. Bottom Line:If what you want is a great recording, and a simple to use device. So dont spend an hour, (like me), trying to figure out why my speakers no longer worked. This product does the job nicely. Just unplug the device and all the sound will work agian.Pros: The device is simple. The sound is very good.Cons: Seems a little expensive for what you get (comes with a cable, but you can get it anywhere for a couple of bucks).No conversion utilities. First of all, I only gave it 4 stars because there are no conversion utilities.
Just plug it in an USB port and start recording from any analog device. At least on a PC, you can only produce a large WAV file, you have to find some other product to convert it to a smaller, exchangeable format (MP3). iTunes seems to do the job well, so there is no need to spend extra money.I used Windows Vista to test the product, and no drivers were needed for it to work. But are there cheaper products out there, that do the same thing, you may want to look around.
It does save as a WAV. You can use other remastering programs such as MAGIX to clean up the audio file and you use your computer's own burning program to create the CD. file, though - separate free software needs to be downloaded to convert to MP3 - and WAV files are rather large.
Sound quality with this product is as good as the original cassette. If you get an adapter (@ $8 at Radio Shack) you can import out of the headphone jack of a boom box or stereo so no need to have a tape deck. This product is great for transfering your cassette collection to CD.
It is easy to install and get started and the software that comes with it is basic but good. Unlike other products out there, there is no microphone recording involved. Make all of the background noise you want - none of it gets picked up in the recording.
Bottom line, this product does exactly what it says it will and it does it well.
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