Dan, I have zero experience with the computer end of your project, but I think that the audio end is pretty simple. I have looked at the web page and photos of the two M-Audio units.
All you should need to do is select for left and right line level inputs and use the highest quality cassette deck, with heads aligned and cleaned, that you can find. You will need to pay attention to playing back with the proper tape bias signal and with or without Dolby noise reduction, however the tapes were recorded. Your experience with A-D conversion and using your M-Audio units will help you to set the gain at the optimum level, if you need to do that. The digital recording configruation will depend on the capability of your playback. Can the computer actually burn 24/96 if you want to use that? I don't know. 16/44.1 will play on anything. The equipment problem is finding a cable that has RCA plugs on one end for the cassette deck and the TRS connectors on the other end for the M-Audio unit inputs. Are those 1/4 inch phone jacks on one side of one of those units? If those are inputs, it is easy to find adapters for RCA to 1/4 inch phone plugs. Rat Shack number 274-884. Then you can use a regular cable terminated with RCA plugs to connect the cassette deck. If those inputs can be routed one for left and one for right. Hope this helps, David Dudine | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
