Bizarre situation...

[FuneralCircle]

My band recorded a demo in March, and when we got the tapes (around 100), we were sorely disappointed by the sound quality. We went into our rehearsal space last weekend and recorded a second demo on 4 track cassette. A friend of ours said he can dub over the existing tapes with the new cut, but he needs a CD-R master to do so. So, I'm sitting here with our master tape trying to figure out the easiest way to get it onto my PC without losing any sound quality. Has anyone got any tips they could offer?
Thanks

[uab9253]

Well first thing you could do, and possibly easiest and cheapest is use the headphone out jack from the cassette recorder and connect a stereo cable (usually 1/8") to the line input of the pc sound card. Then use sound recorder in Windows, under accessories to record each song as a separate wave file. Then burn them to an audio cd. You won't really lose any quality since it is taking what your 4 track outputs as an analog signal and converting to digital. I am sure that there are some who would differ with this method to use I/O with higher bit rates than a plain old soundcard on a pc, but really the sound source is not pristine itself, so this is workable. I used to do it all the time to master from my 4 track to a cd via my pc.
I'm not sure what your friend is going to do then, completely record over the old tape with the new version? If so, and both are cassettes, can't you just do that on a dual cassette deck?

[FuneralCircle]

I believe he's got a device that rips CD-Rs to tape...
And I would just record from a dual tape deck but there's 100 of them, and I think you lose some volume by doing it that way.