[MacDV] Digitizing cassettes

[David Thrasher]

You can do it but not with ordinary cables. What you need are attenuating cables which you can buy at Radio Shack. These cables will take speaker level output - what headphone jacks put out, (which are higher level than line level by the way) and bump the signal level down to mic level so you can safely record without the fear of frying your electronics. The attenuating cables contain a resistor (I'm fairly sure) although I wouldn't know the ohms. I suppose if you did know the resistance you could make your own.

-Dave


Original message:
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Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 18:53:45 -0400
From: Carl Flatow 
Subject: [MacDV] Digitizing cassettes
Message-id: <428CB865-7E83-11D7-BAC7-0003931A9514 at optonline.net>

I am wondering if it is reasonable to digitize music cassettes by 
patching a tape player's headphone jack into my Canon ZR10's microphone 
jack?

Carl