My experience recording interviews and certain news clips from FM have put the weak spot on my antenna, not the cassette deck.
I prefer a Pioneer 707 reel to reel for this purpose, but a friend of mine uses a TASCAM SS-R1 Solid State Flash Recorder and loves it.
(His was in house before one could be found in the states...but they are now available so I am told.)
If you were sourcing serious vinyl, I would not suggest this, but with FM as a source, the reproductions he has sent me are STELLAR!
He sets it on the lossless setting and edits like butter on the PC, burning the CD from there. All the fading and editing is done on the PC in about a tenth the time, with none of the down-line losses from mix-downs.
If I was doing more radio archiving, I would own one of these in a heartbeat. While the old cassette brings back fond memories, after hearing the product of this unit, there is no comparison...since you will pay this much for a really good reliable cassette deck anyway.
I know these are available, if you shop around, for just over 500.00. There may even be the same device by other manufacturers out there with similar results.
If you choose to investigate this further, please share your findings, I may end up putting one of these on my christmas list and the more I know the better :>)
I prefer a Pioneer 707 reel to reel for this purpose, but a friend of mine uses a TASCAM SS-R1 Solid State Flash Recorder and loves it.
(His was in house before one could be found in the states...but they are now available so I am told.)
If you were sourcing serious vinyl, I would not suggest this, but with FM as a source, the reproductions he has sent me are STELLAR!
He sets it on the lossless setting and edits like butter on the PC, burning the CD from there. All the fading and editing is done on the PC in about a tenth the time, with none of the down-line losses from mix-downs.
If I was doing more radio archiving, I would own one of these in a heartbeat. While the old cassette brings back fond memories, after hearing the product of this unit, there is no comparison...since you will pay this much for a really good reliable cassette deck anyway.
I know these are available, if you shop around, for just over 500.00. There may even be the same device by other manufacturers out there with similar results.
If you choose to investigate this further, please share your findings, I may end up putting one of these on my christmas list and the more I know the better :>)