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USB 2.0 Digital Audio Capture Card for Windows 10/8.1/8 / 7 / and Mac OS 10.14 – Audio Grabber for Cassette Tapes to mp3 Converter

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V.TOP is a Quality analog-to-digital Conversion Tool

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2019

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I have dozens of ancient Cassette Tapes (early 1970s) needed to be digitied. I had bought a used Yamaha KX-R430 Cassette Deck & digitized to play them into the V.TOP USB device, available on Amazon here: [link deleted].

The “Line-Out” RCA pin jacks on the KX-R430 tape deck produced only thin, echo-y output to the V.TOP, which in turn produced a thin, echo-y digital file to Audacity, the free Windows analog-audio-capture and digitizing softare.

This is because “line out” from the deck was in need of a pre-amp to contour the output into its full fidelity potential. Luckily, the HeadPhone output jack of the KX-R430 produced rich, full stereo sound. The V.TOP device worked well when connected to the preamped HeadPhone Jack of the Yamaha KX-R430.

NOTE: A male 1/4″ (KX-R430 HP output) male to a “small” (1/8″ V.TOP male input) audio adaptor jack was needed to make the Cassette music flow from the deck to the V.TOP and thence into the USB port of the computer. Such an adaptor is available on Amazon here: [link deleted].

USB output of V.TOP USB device captured, recorded, and copied out as a digital file, which in turn was captured and saved to the laptop hard drive by Audacity. The V.TOP package provides a mini-CD which contains the excellent, and free, Audacity recording app.

NOTE: Audacity FAQ says: “You will probably want to both hear the monitored audio and see it on screen while recording. To do this, enable “Software Playthrough” in the Transport > Transport Options menu.” This worked perfectly. Now headphones are hooked up to DELL Inspiron 15 laptop speaker output and V.TOP USB device is
connected to HeadPhone Jack (front panel) of Yamaha KX-R430. V.TOP draws its power from the USB port of the laptop to which it is connected (see picture).

This allows realtime, monitoring & recording by Audacity. The process is 100% manual during Start/Record/Stop of all Tape Deck and Audacity “Transport” controls. If you have a 60 minute cassette tape, it will take 75 minutes to digitize it track by track.

Audacity’s File –> Export command allows direct saving of stereo tracks as .mp3 or .wav (and other) audio formats to the local hard drive. Track Names are up to the archivist. Once these files are on the local HD they can then be used to burn to a data CD or a thumb drive.

If you only want to make .mp3 files of your old time “Mickey Mouse” kids cassettes, then any of the cheap “MP3 Converter” Walkman-style Cassette Players sold on Amazon will probably do. But Beware: These devices are toys, not tools. I bought one and sent it back.

The V.TOP is a credible tool for making high fidelity digital stereo files [.mp3 or .wav] to preserve important cassette recordings, PROVIDED you use a quality, stereo cassette tape deck to play them into the V.TOP. V.TOP is Highly Recommended by me.

Audacity settings are:
Audio Host: MME
Recording Device: Microsoft Sound Manager
Recording Channels: 2 (Stereo) Recording
Playback Device: Speakers/Headphones

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James M.

Easy to Use

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018

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This is a great device to convert cassettes to MP3 files. It is completely Plug and Play. In other words, you will not need to add a driver because Windows will do that for you upon plugging it into a USB port. You will know it is connected when you see the blue LED start flashing on the Digital Audio Capture Card. I used this device using Windows 10 on an ASUS laptop and Windows 10 on a Dell (Alienware) laptop, and it work flawlessly on both computers.

The audio editing software that comes with the capture card is Audacity and it is on a mini disk. If you do not have a disk player, you can download this free software from the Audacity website. In fact, you will want to download Audacity from the website anyway because the software on the disk is an older version. Both the included disk and the website has a user manual that you can download onto your computer as well. The Audacity software is simple enough to use, and if you need help, use the manual or watch any number of YouTube videos. I also used this device with Adobe Audition audio editing software and it worked fine. Audacity and other audio editing software will recognize this device as “Microphone Array (USB PnP Audio Device)”.

I used a cassette deck and connected it using the two RCA phono plugs on the audio capture card. You can use the included headphone plug as well, depending on your device. Remember if you use a headphone jack on a portable cassette player or boom box, the volume on your boom box will affect the input level going to the software recording. RCA phono output jacks are considered “line outputs” and are not adjustable; therefore, I didn’t have to worry about having the volume either too high or too low. I recommend using a cassette player that has line outputs.

Each recording is considered a project, which allows you to edit, such as remove silent intros and endings after each recording (song) is finished. In other words, you don’t need to worry about timing the pressing of your cassette deck play button with pressing the software record button: you can clean it up after the song has finished recording. Once you have your project (song) the way you like it, you then export it to the type of file you want such as .wav or .MP3. I have done one cassette so far. I added all the cassette’s MP3 files to a folder, and then I added the folder to iTunes. This Digital Audio Capture Card is well worth the money.

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This is a very practical way to save old cassettes and vinyl

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2022

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You can spend more to backup your old tapes and records but for home usage, this is a very good solution that works well. Put simply, it works great to digitize analog audio to a Windows 11 computer. You’ve got to do your part to read the (not too comprehensive) instructions, download the editing software (Audacity), make the connections, set basic parameters, start a recording session and save the results. If you want to fine tune your work, you can section out and label tracks, edit out “dead air”, clean up clicks and pops, re-sequence tracks and add titles and metadata. Use it simply or dive in to maximize the results.

To record vinyl records, you may need a phono preamp for most turntables to boost the signal to line level signal strength. But it works with a preamp (or your receiver that has a phono preamp built-in) very well also.

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Biggoldman

Most of your old audio is safe now with this

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023

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For a long time I’ve wondered how to preserve all my old cassette tapes. This gave me the power to do that, and quite well.

Need to know how to use it.

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2023

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Ok it is plug and play with my win 10 computer. I put cassette tapes in my cassette deck and connect line out to the red and white RCA phono Jack’s on the device. The usb a plug goes into my desktop usb port. Then I load audacity software. Had to learn the basics of audacity software. All the levels worked correctly. Saved file as was because it sounds better. Downloaded file to a spare smartphone I have and now it is a music player. This device makes it all happen easy once you know how it all works together. My cassette deck is a 500 unit with good frequency response so the end result was file is real good. Mp3 files are also good but wav files sounds better.

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Teri Sigurdur

This is easy to use for a non techy person like myself

Reviewed in Canada on November 6, 2023

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So easy to set up – just plug it into the computer and then into the stereo cassette player. Haven’t used it for the turntable yet.

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Lisa Chan

User Friendly

Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2021

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So far so good. I am not a tech person and if I can use it I think anyone can. It is user friendly. At 1st it looks overwhelming. But once I check out a few youtube of how it works, and some practice it was smooth sailing from here. I like it, the fact that I don’t have to watch it and if I recorded too long (like when the cassette tape is done I had forgotten about it for a lengthy time, it will continue to record until I stop it. But no problem, I can always trim it down. So no babysitting involved while you are recording.

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Campbell

Works great with a Raspberry Pi

Reviewed in Canada on August 29, 2021

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I used this to connect my record player to a Raspberry Pi so I can stream it to my Sonos speakers (no line-in or bluetooth). Works great! Very satisfied with the audio quality and ease of use.

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Marc St-sauveur

fonctionne a merveille pour moi

Reviewed in Canada on December 8, 2020

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je m’en sert pour enregistré directement de mon mixer, sans avoir a installer quoi que ce soi.

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Ken K

Simple interface, Plug and Play

Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2020

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Simple interface between analog audio device that uses RCA connectors, and the USB port of your computer. I have a small mixer that I connect to my computer and this works as advertised.

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Audio capture card,Plug and play, no extra power supply. Support Audio capture card,Plug and play, no extra power supply. Support Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP and Mac OS 10.7-10.14. (Not support Mac OS10.15).Notice:Audacity can be installed on Raspberry Pi 3B.
Coming with professional audio capture/converting software ( Audacity) and online updating.
This usb audio digitizer(audio converter) make user easily record live audio or transfer analog to be digital formats such as MP3, WAV. User can save&listen music on MP3 player, computer, portable CD player, or car stereo or home stereo system.
To record and convert classic vinly turntable LP or cassette tape music audio to be MP3/WAV digital formats.Convert cassette tape to cd.Note:If you have a standalone turntable but no amplifier or pre-amp, you may want to consider the Behringer UFO202 or the ART USBPhonoPlus. These devices contain a built-in phono pre-amp and connect to your computer through a USB port. They can also be used to connect line level devices such as a cassette deck.
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