Former Radio Shack salesman here. I had used and sold these cassette decks for many years. Myself and my friends had TRS-80 computers or Commodore 64's back then. Now I manage a Microsoft Azure tenant for my company, wow how times have changed. In watching this video I'm not sure you are using this correctly. I used tape for many many years both personally and for small businesses. If I get a chance I'll come back to you on this one.
This might be a good unit for computers, using the USB, because most of these record in mp3 which is not suitable for the task, but this one uses wav encoding. Just don't use the remote input. What is the samplig rate and bit depth of the wav file it records?
Agreed. After reviewing the footage a while back i tried multiple different computers and had the same issue. Tried a resistor in series and the Amstrad CPC picked up header but didn't load. rest were not happy.
Yeah I've not had good luck with these modern cassette decks with computers, they're awful. I've had better luck with one of those digital dictaphone type things that save to micro SD and have line/mic input - these do produce reasonable results although they don't do the remote control (which you can live without). The other good thing about those is they have a display so you can name your files and play back the appropriate one - I use mine with a bunch of OTLA files to fast-load stuff into various machines. It also has a built in battery so one less cable to be faffing about with. For the cassette side - the Sony ones are dirt cheap second hand and work well.
