Reddit reviews JENSEN MCR-100 Cassette Player/Recorder

yep sorry i cant really put more up i'm messing around with all this stuff and I gotta go to work lol. Its this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UY8QEGW/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid= Duno why it says CD but its the same model, im going to try a more expensive one that i left at one of my parents house way back when and see if it does the same thing. Im thinking its just the pitch i grew up with cassettes but never really questioned how they worked and all the facors, im starting to love them. Ok this post is making me late for work im sorry to tease with just this inofomation lol. I will upload as soon as I can expect within the next 12 -24 hours.

>Just wondering if something like this could convert mp3 to a cassette tape. I assume so since most things go vice versa but idk.

Not in this case. A lot of hand-held cassette players are play-only. They don't record.

I expect you're engaging in overkill looking to a "converter". You don't need a USB connector or custom software. Just run a stereo mini jack from the headphone jack on your computer to the input of any cassette player with a recording head. (lo-fi example)

Though, why do you want to transfer things to cassettes anyway? Most of the time you'd be better off with a portable MP3 player and a cassette-deck adapter.

its just outside of our core competencies, the opposite of what we do. might actually have more luck at a sound studio.

Actually, just need this: https://www.amazon.ca/JENSEN-JENMCR100-Cassette-Player-Recorder/dp/B00UY8QEGW/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1549163589&sr=1-2&keywords=cassette+with+mic

Hi. My grandma had dementia and we had the same idea for her, especially after she had a hard time following what she was reading in books. We asked her if that is something she would like and she said "yes". We got her a machine that had big buttons like this: https://www.amazon.com/JENSEN-MCR-100-Cassette-Player-Recorder/dp/B00UY8QEGW?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_2. They're called retro tape players - they also have them on websites for elderly people.

She could operate it. However, she just wasn't able to follow what they were saying on the tapes and didn't enjoy listening to music anymore. To be honest, the only things she wanted to do were watch TV and look out the window. She didn't even want to watch movies, go out with her friends, or do anything else besides watch TV and look out the window. I think the only reason why she agreed to the tape player was because it sounded like a good idea, but when it came right down to being interested in using it, she just wasn't. Even if I started a tape for her, she would turn it off and turn on the TV.

So before you make a purchase, you may want to play your grandfather some tapes while you are there to see if he can follow whatever is on them and if he stays interested. Hope this helps.

I get a really convincing Daniel Johnston sound from this
tape recorder

I just record out from my interface into the aux in on the tape player and then back again from the headphone jack, really sounds authentic DJ DIY

Most cassette decks can play and record, just look for one that feels solid and actually works at thrift stores. I see decks all the time for $20 or less. Just don't get cheap, plastic, modern stuff that look like a Jensen: https://www.amazon.com/JENSEN-MCR-100-Cassette-Player-Recorder/dp/B00UY8QEGW/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=jensen+cassette+player&qid=1570928230&sprefix=jensen+cass&sr=8-2
Look for vintage stuff, with well known brands such as Sony, pioneer, etc.

I've made a few cassetts/mixtapes at home with my old school cassette deck.

You'll need to get the audio out from your PC into some sort of Cassette recorder. The easiest and cheapest would be to run an Aux cord from your speaker output to the mic input on a cassette recorder like this: https://www.amazon.com/Jensen-MCR-100-cassette-recorder-player/dp/B00UY8QEGW. You could also check thrift stores for an old cassette player with an input jack. I got my old 70s cassette deck for $20 at a local shop.

You then start recording the cassette and play your music through while recording and play the album through all the way. Stop recording on the cassette recorder. You will have to record each cassette in real time, one at a time. You can buy a cassette duplicator that takes a master tape and duplicates it to multiple tapes to speed this process up if you wish.

This will get you a pretty meh quality recording especially if you are using old recycled tapes, but that is probably what you are going for if you are making tapes. If you want better quality, you would want to make sure you have a good Digital to Analog converter to output to the cassette recorder, that you use a high quality deck/recorder and you use a chrome tape as the master.