Alesis TapeLink USB: For Ripping Music from Cassettes

By Audrey • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: Music equipment

Audio cassettes are the outdated source for enjoying music. Nowadays digital media dominates the market and offers much improved music formats for delivering the best quality sound. But what if you still have got a clutter of audio tapes of your favourite tracks? Before you discard them it’s worth having a look at the Alesis TapeLink USB.

It’s an all in one solution that still allows utilising the cassettes judiciously. With this device you can rip music from audio cassettes to any Windows or Mac machine in CD quality. The Alesis Tapelink USB device can digitize all the music that is stored on the cassette. However, the sound quality is still a little bit inferior as compared to the acoustic quality rendered by the original compact discs, but still the Alesis TapeLink USB is of great use. It sports a plug n play (PnP) USB audio interface and to use that with the PC there is no need to hunt for any special drivers. Apart from this the device also features a CD quality 16-bit (44.1 kHz) audio output that helps in capturing the tape data accurately.

This awesome device can support both normal and high speed dubbing modes. The company has included a special SoundSoap professional noise-reduction software to clear all the noise distortions that are usually an integral part of audio tapes. This special noise reduction circuitry is very useful to clean the aging tapes. The TapeLink offers all other necessary functions such as LED meter, auto-stop feature to prevent old tapes from breaking etc.

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