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by oldmainframer

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We are a small church and generally record our Sunday a.m. sermon. Currently, we use a cassette tape recorder and an old cassette duplicator. We send 5 or 6 tapes out to a few "friends" and occasionally copy one for someone at the service.

We want to convert to CDs. We need to be able to record the teaching (we do have a wireless mike - currently run into a small mixer & output to a cassette recorder). We need to be able to dup CDs. Cost should be as minimal as possible.

So, should we buy a stand-alone CD recorder? Or record onto a PC? If we do that, what software would be needed?

Duplicating is another question. Stand alone units do that, but seem to be slow. Dedicated CD duplicating machines seem to be efficent, but kind of a waste of financial resources, but would be easy for even a non-technical person to use.

A simple PC with a CD reader & writer would probably not be really expensive... However, are there writers that will do more than one CD at a time - something that we could replace the "standard burner" with?

Cost is a definate factor. We are a REALLY small church - and are not professional sound/computer guys.

Ideas?? Anyone else do this?? (Maybe on a bigger scale.)

Thanks!

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by fwang

PC with CD burner is not expensive. You can use the PC to convert cassette tape to hard drive, then burn it on CD. With current burner, you should be able to burn 1 full CD under 10 minutes.

by bhatnagar_nitin9

from this site:
http://www.download.com/Smart-PC-Recorder/3000-2170_4-10611567.html?tag=lst-0-1
Best of all, it's free and so no need to purchase. Simply install it, plug-in your audio equipment with your PC using Line-In jack. Next, read the instructions as said in the manuals of this software.
But keep in mind to record the audio in '.mp3' format when recording via this software as mp3 files are of good quality and highly compressed in space.
Finally burn your audio files on any blank CD. You are all set for tape audio to CD audio conversion :)

by mr.wiz

We do this at our church. It really depends on what you want. We tried to do the direct to CD recording, but we weren't able to edit the messages. Now we record to pc and use the pc CD drive to duplicate the disks. There are several companies with turnkey solutions to situations like yours that deal primarily with churches.

by dharvey

PC is defenatly the option to use, if you get a reasonable one then you have all the tools and equipment, without buying or downloading anything else.

If this is out of the budget then I am sure that someone will offer to do this for a reasonable price for you, but in the long run, The PC will pay for itself.

You can also use it for other things and make it work for you.

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