[Sidders]

That's cos it is. Plug your recorder into the audio out jacks using the lead described and then, as long as you have the audio routed to leave the desk via the audio out (usually set like thsi as default), then you should get a good line level feed to you recorder which you can then record on.

I think he was actually pointing out your typo.

[RussT]

God bless hospital radio. An excuse for anoraks to gather together with the cloak of disguise being they provide a service to patients

Seriously recording onto cassette so you can put it onto MP3 just sounds plain wacky. The digital dictophone or similar idea is far more sensible. Or even a cheap second hand MD recorder. Anything but cassette!

[kendra k]

it's funny you say that russ. my college radio station, which is supposedly one of the best stations in the us, still relies on cassette decks to record airchecks. more people have started recording the real stream at home, or bring laptops/md records to record off the board, to get a digital recording, but the station doesn't have anything set up to do this. it sucks because i have to review people's shows and 80% of them are on cassette. it's a pain to listen to, that's for sure.

[Iced-T]

I'm currently bidding on a MD player/recorder on Ebay for about a tenner so I'm hoping to be able to use those instead.

[Iced-T]

On which of course I'll be able to get a lot more than an hours worth of music

[RussT]

it's funny you say that russ. my college radio station, which is supposedly one of the best stations in the us, still relies on cassette decks to record airchecks. more people have started recording the real stream at home, or bring laptops/md records to record off the board, to get a digital recording, but the station doesn't have anything set up to do this. it sucks because i have to review people's shows and 80% of them are on cassette. it's a pain to listen to, that's for sure.

Cassette air checks are still very common, this is because most pro mixing desks for radio offer a mic live output, which is what triggers mic live lights, and cassette players can be easily modded to record when the mic is open (ideal for airchecks as you say).

The last station we built actually used a hardware input card (although you could do it using a serial/parallel port) to check for this "mic live" output and when live it triggered an mp3 recorder http://www.broadcast.co.uk/audiosnooping-p-69.html?cPath=34 which worked very nicely indeed.

[kendra k]

ahh, the mic-break only aircheck. some people call them skip tapes here. i need to review the music too, since we sort of have a group to monitor all programming. most people want it all too. it'd be nice if we had remote starts on the turntable again too. once can dream...

[RussT]

God bless hospital radio (again!) ... keeping the vinyl dream alive ... well at least for playing non-specialist music hehe

[kendra k]

we do! it's funny because when we train new djs, we force them to play vinyl. for many of them it's the first time they've ever done it! wha huh? it is college radio after all- we would be nothing without our 100,000+ vinyl collection. (CDs are slightly more.)

[RussT]

That is impressive.

I used vinyl on air ONCE back in the early days of my career (I was 12) on a local RSL (Restricted Service Licence - temporary station basically), for some guy who presented a jazz show. We had remote starts thankfully. I only got one track one out of the whole 2 hours show which I was quite proud about.