Ish Rattan wrote: Here's what I'd do (and have done many times with great success). Get an Ensoniq ES1370 (not ES1371) sound card from eBay. They show up fairly often and you should be no more than $20 out of pocket for it. They are the best-sounding cheap sound card around. The 1371 uses a different chipset and doesn't sound as good. Keep your peak levels no higher than -6 dBFS or you'll overload the sound card. If your tape deck has hot output (like a professional machine does at +4, and that consumer machines do not), you'll need some kind of attenuator between the tape deck and sound card to avoid overloading the sound card's input stages. This is a problem you can't fix with the mix applet (I've tried). I therefore always put an outboard mixer between the tape deck and the sound card because it allows me to tweak the level the sound card sees very easily (and is required if I want to record from my Ampexes with their +4 output, which is generally what I'm doing). Record using Broadcast 2000, edit, save to WAV files, render, etc., etc., as appropriate. Burn CD's using your favorite burning software. I like Eroaster for audio CD's, myself, but there are many choices here, and they all merely supply a graphical front end to cdrecord. So try them all and see what works best for you. Record in disk at once (DAO) mode unless you have a compelling reason not to. Howard Sanner flagstad(a)mindspring.com