HW: Interview tapes

[BL Young]

Just find the line-in on the back of your pc (sound card).  Then get
yourself a line that can run from the headphone jack of your walkman tape
player to the line in jack.  It's hard to find one that's male-to-male, but
I did finally find one after a lengthy search of several electronics stores.
Be sure you get one with stereo jacks (three separate metal sections on the
pole, with two black plastic interfaces between).  Not that stereo is that
important for an interview, but you might care to digitize music from tape
to cdr later.

Then there's another really lengthy trick (for Windows 95 & 98) to get the
line in to accept the stereo.  Some computers come configured for it, and
some appear to only accept mono, but with a few clicks you can be on your
way.  It's buried quite deeply, so a few people miss it and assume their
computer only handles mono inputs.  If anybody has ever had trouble
recording stereo on your computer, contact me off list and I can give you
the instructions.

Good luck!

Bryan


----- Original Message -----
From: iain ferguson <iainferguson at AOL.COM>
To: <BOC-L at listserv.spc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: HW: Interview tapes


> Hi ,
>
> I did an Interview with Hawkwind back in '81 ( sonic attack tour) for
> Radio Bristol. Interview was about 12 minutes in length with Huw Lloyd
> Langton ( chain smoking three strands of rolling bacci in a rizzla) &
> Martin Griffin. Pretty nieve questions as I was 14 at the time. Will
> attempt to copy it from Tape onto my PC. then I'll be able to burn it
> onto CD.
>
> Can anyone suggest the best way of recording tape onto a CD ( its
> something I've not tried yet)
>
> regards
> iain
>
> John Majka wrote:
>
> > Well if music doesn't really interest you, we can bypass the list
> > then.  Basically I have a 90-minute tape of compiled interviews circa
> > 1977 to circa 1984 with such members as Robert Calvert, Dave Brock,
> > Simon King, Harvey Bainbridge, Michael Moorcock.  Then I have the Dave
> > Brock interview from the Flicknife boxed set.  And the 15 minute or so
> > interview from the Westwind Tape from the 1989 USA tour... that's it
> > as far as interviews go.John Majkajmajka2 at home.com
> >
> >        Hi John,Would you mind copying, pasting and then e-mailing
> >      me your interview HW list please, as I'm not one for huge
> >      lists.Ta,Jez
> >
> >           ----- Original Message -----From: John MajkaTo:
> >           BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDUSent: Tuesday, April 10,
> >           2001 10:27 PMSubject: Re: HW: Interview tapes Well
> >           I certainly wouldn't mind getting my hands on
> >           those interviews... I have a couple myself, on my
> >           list...http://www.nlci.com/users/flossbac/tapes.htmlJohn
> >           Majkajmajka2 at home.com
> >
> >                  Hi,In all my time on BOC-L I don't
> >                recall anyone ever discussing HW audio
> >                interviews (radio or otherwise).Does
> >                anyone else collect these?At the last
> >                count I think I had 8 C90's worth.If
> >                anyone cares to list and/or swap what
> >                they've got then please let me know what
> >                you've got.Cheers,Jez
> >