Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassette project

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:55 PM 2009-04-20, Lou Judson wrote:
> Just to add to Richard's excellent suggestion, you can also use the
> Zoom connected by its USB cable to go directly into the computer - or
> to download from its internal SD card.

Yes, the Zoom does work as an audio 
interface--I've been meaning to try it, but its 
download is painful as it's a USB 1.1. You need 
USB 2.0 to do justice to the files and I got a 
Transcend card with a cute card reader and a 56-in-1 IO Gear reader as well.

I was so sad that my nice Sandisk 12-in-1 readers 
would not read HDHC cards--but everything else I 
have is CF (for now) which the Sandisks read up to 32 GB.

By the way, I'm making this recommendation for 
cassettes. I'm not sure I'd do high-quality reels 
with the zoom H2, but considering most cassettes 
I've heard the H2 is just fine.

Cheers,

Richard


> That way you don't need a card
> reader if you don't have one already. And, I found a 4G SDHC card
> that came with a reader too, in a drug store of all places... in the
> camera department.
>
> <L>
> Lou Judson ? Intuitive Audio
> 415-883-2689
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Richard L. Hess wrote:
>
> > However, the generic sound card on a generic computer may or may
> > not be adequate to the task. A much simpler solution is to obtain a
> > device like a Zoom H2 and let it create the files, and then use a
> > card reader to take the files off the SDHC card and put them into
> > your storage system. It even comes with the dual RCA-> mini cable.
> > A cassette deck with an output level control is highly recommended
> > as do not use the Zooms line input level control to go below 100,
> > all you do is move down the clipping point (what can you expect for
> > $250C, $160US).

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