Can I hook up my Tape deck to my stereo/PC?

[mayvaian2001]

Hey i recently hooked my stereo amp to my pc and now i have a night club in my room!My problem is that i want to hook the separate tape deck to the stereo so i can make tapes for my car and im pretty much lost ive tried every combination of wires i can think of and nothing works...whats the deal?

[Bob The Great]

You could get one of those car kits. That have a Tape that connects to a Disc man. So you can play cd's on with tape players. Then you can burn your songs to CD and play them with the disk man.

Would that work for you?

[Bob The Great]

BTW. Congrats on your first post! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[daverme]

First, how is the PC connected to the amplifier and what is the PC used for ... are you sending music TO the PC or getting music FROM the PC (or both)?

The amplifier should have input jacks specifically for a tape deck and should also have a switch or push button to select the input source. To my knowledge, you can only select one input at a time.

[Reddog]

You can use a RCA-Jack to minijack converter cable, like those found in Radio Shack, and hook the tape deck's line in ports to your PC's line out port. If you have a multi-speaker card, make sure line-out is enabled. Otherwise, just hit record and play the song as if you were listening to it through the speakers.

[VERT]

ok, depending on your amp (have a look at the manual if you have one, or look at the back of your amp) there should be 2 sets of RCA female plugs, 1 set to plug a tape deck into for PLAYING tapes and the the other set for tape deck RECORDING, then just hook your tape deck up. If you havent got these plugs you wont be able to hook up your tape deck. You say that your've got your PC already hooked up to your amp (I would imagine you have it plugged into AUX or something similar). Thats it! you can record onto tape from your PC. If you are still unsure, let me know the brandname and model number of your amp and I'll draw a picture or something for ya.

[Shagnasty]

You can record both to your tape deck or
from it, or any other audio source to the
computer as a .wav file.
You should have a Y-connector that converts
the single little stereo headphone type jack
for the sound card to a Dual (Left/Right)
RCA jack for patch cords. I use two of these
connectors for input and output. If your
Amp has the input/output RCA jacks built in
the back you can go through the amp instead.
One problem you might have is Level...You
might have to adjust the volume on the PC
a little higher to get it to register on
the tape record...but it works Great...