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Ion USB Cassette Converter
Instruction Booklet
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  • Page 1 Ion USB Cassette Converter Instruction Booklet NOTICE: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, US Code) governs the making of copies of materials in all formats, including the creation, online delivery, and use of digital copies of copyrighted material, including photographs. Persons using this equipment are liable for any...
  • Page 2 .WAV files over the .mp3 format. Jump down to the CONVERTING TO .MP3 with AUDACITY section on page 14 The following is a step-by-step guide that will walk you through how to use the ION USB Cassette Converter: CONVERTING TAPES USING THE EZ VINYL/TAPE CONVERTER SOFTWARE 1.
  • Page 3 2. Pull up on the cover flap to open cover. 3. Insert the cassette you want to convert into the converter.
  • Page 4 4. Close the Tape deck. 5. If needed, press the REWIND button to rewind the tape to the start. Press the STOP button once the tape has finished rewinding.
  • Page 5 6. Double check that the volume knob is turned up (roll tab wheel to the left). 7. Connect the end of the USB cable into the computer to connect the converter with the 8. You can wear the headphones to listen along if you prefer.
  • Page 6 9. On the PC desktop, left click with the mouse twice on the EZ Audio Converter Icon. 10. The Window below will open. Click NEXT to continue...
  • Page 7 11. On the next screen, select the TAPE PLAYER option. Then click NEXT. 12. Select normal or Chrome tape depending on condition of your source cassette. Then click NEXT to continue.
  • Page 8 13. Follow instructions on the screen to start the conversion process. Click on the RECORD button on the screen to begin the recording process, then immediately press the PLAY BUTTON on the converter to start the playback of the tape. Click Record II .
  • Page 9 You should see the bars light up green on the screen according to the volume. 14. Your tape will be converted until it detects no more audio, or it arrives at the end of the cassette and you see the following window. Then click NEXT.
  • Page 10 15. You now have the option to add artist, album and track name information, and to specify where to save your files. Type in the information that you want. 16. You now need to select where to save the files. First, Insert your USB flashdrive into the computer.
  • Page 11 17. One the screen, click on the folder button either near the top (if saving a single file) or botton (if saving multiple files) of the window under the section that says SAVE LOCATION. This will bring up a new file location window. DON’T FORGET TO DO THIS STEP FIRST OR YOU MIGHT SAVE YOUR FILES SOMEWHERE UNACCESSIBLE ON THE COMPUTER.
  • Page 12 19. Click on the NEXT button. Your files will be saved.
  • Page 13 20. A recording complete window will show. You can click on the OPEN FILE LOCATION button to verify that the files saved to your USB drive. IF you have more tapes to convert, click on RECORD SOMETHING ELSE to return to the record screen and follow the appropriate steps again.
  • Page 14 1. Begin by inserting your USB drive into one open port of the computer and the USB chord for the ION cassette converter into another port.
  • Page 15 2. Insert your tape into the ION cassette converter. Close Cover. 3. If needed, press the REWIND BUTTON on the ION cassette converter to rewind your tape.
  • Page 16 4. Next, open the AUDACITY software on the computer. To do so, click with the mouse inside of the search box near the bottom left of the screen.
  • Page 17 5. Then, type in audacity on the keyboard. In the results above you’ll see the audacity program. Left click on this with the mouse to open. 1. Then Click on audacity in the results above to open. 1. First type in audacity 2.
  • Page 18 6. The Audacity software will open.
  • Page 19 7. You are ready to begin recording. Click on the RECORD BUTTON in Audacity to start the recording process. Then immediately click the PLAY BUTTON on the Ion cassette converter to begin playback of your tape.
  • Page 20 9. The software will continue to record until you click on the stop button inside of Audacity. Once you reach the end of the tape, the ION Cassette Converter will stop automatically. You should then click on the STOP button in Audacity to stop recording.
  • Page 21 10. You next will want to clean up the silences at the start and end of the recording. To jump to the front of the recording click on the left arrow button. 11. Once at the front of the recording, click inside of where the soundwaves are drag to select the portion the line is flat (no sound here).
  • Page 22 12. Once selected you can press the DELETE key on the keyboard, or go to the top menu under EDIT and select ‘Delete’. The selected section is deleted.
  • Page 23 13. You can then jump back to the end and do the same to clean up silence at the end of recording. Click the Right ARROW button to skip to the end.
  • Page 24 14. Select the section you want to delete at the end by left clicking in the soundwave window and while holding down drag the cursor to the right. Once you have selected the portion to delete, press the DELETE key on the keyboard, or go to “edit” in the top menu and select Delete.
  • Page 25 In order to listen to the recording you’ll need to set up the headphones thru the computer. First unplug the headphones from the Ion Cassette Converter and plug them into the audio jack at the front of the PC unit.
  • Page 26 16. Once you plug in the headphones you’ll see the window below pop up on the screen. Select the headphones option, then click OK in the small window.
  • Page 27 17. Next, you will need to adjust the playback setting inside of Audacity and Windows 10. Under click on the playback dropdown menu where is say “Speakers (USB PnP Audio Device), and change the selection to “Speakers/ Headphones (Realtek(R)” 18. Then under the sound driver dropdown menu, click on “MME” and change the selection to “Windows Direct Sound”...
  • Page 28 19. Lastly, at the bottom of the computer window you’ll see a speaker icon Click on it to bring up the system sound bar. Click where is says “Speakers (USB PnP Audio Device), and change the selection to “Speakers/ Headphones (Realtek(R)”...
  • Page 29 20. You are now able to listen to the recording. To do so, click jump back to the start of the audio file pressing the LEFT Arrow button. Then press the green Arrow button to start playback. 21. Check for audio quality. If the records seem faint or there is a lot of background noises, you’ll want to normalize the audio file.
  • Page 30 22. A warning will pop up. Click Ok to continue.
  • Page 31 23. Due to the IT firewall you might see the following restriction. Just click OK to continue. 24. The save window finally opens. Click in the SAVE AS dropdown menu and select where you would like to save your raw file. The two best choices are you USB drive, or the public drive on the computer “Save your files here (F:)”...
  • Page 32 25. Once you select where to save the raw .aud file, give it a file name and click the Save button to save.
  • Page 33 26. With your raw audio saved you are now ready to do some post-processing of the sound there are a few option available. NORMALIZE: Using this effect changes the peak amplitude for the recording to a set level (generally -1.0 or 0.0 db). This means that louder portions and softer portions of the tracks will sound the same.
  • Page 34 28. With the track selected next click on EFFECt in the top menu, and select NORMALIZE.
  • Page 35 29. A new window will open. Click okay to continue with the normalize processing. 30. The software will normalize the selected track.
  • Page 36 31. Once finished, click on the GREEN play arrow to listen and see if the audio quality has improved. If not, you can go to FILE and CLOSE without saving, and then re-open your raw audio file 32. If the audio quality is good, skip to step #38 on page 39 to learn how to export the audio track for playback on other devices.
  • Page 37 33. If the sound quality is still too soft, you might need to run the AMPLFY effect. Go back up to SELECT and click All to select the entire track. 34. With the audio selected click on EFFECT in the menu, and select Amplify...
  • Page 38 35. A new window opens. Check on the box that says ALLOW CLIPPING. Then slide the bar over until the peak Amplitude (db) value is around 6 db. (Don’t go over 6 dB or you’ll have too much of the sound). 36.
  • Page 39 37. The soundwaves should appear larger inside the window. Once finished, click on the GREEN play arrow to listen and see if the audio quality has improved. If not, you can go to try playing around with the Amplify effect until you get a better sound. EXPORTING AUDIO FILE 38.
  • Page 40 Choose Export as MP3 for a compress file size that can play on your phone, ipod, or other media device. 39. A new window opens. Choose where to save your exported file (verify your USB drive is selected). Then type in a file name, and click the SAVE button to save the exported file.
  • Page 41 40. Another window will show up to allow you to add metadata to the audio file. Here you can input the pertinent metadata. If you don’t want to input any values just click OK. 41. The audio file will be exported.
  • Page 42 Remember to remove your cassette tape from the Ion Cassette converter, and to take your USB flash drive with you. Thank you for using our Ion USB Cassette Converter! Please feel free to leave a comment in the comment box. We’d love to hear about your experience.

  • Page 43: Appendix A : Burning To A Cd

    Appendix A : Burning To A CD You can alternatively burn your converted audio files onto a CD. You will still want to follow the steps to use either the EZ-Vinyl/Tape Converter software or Audacity software and save your audio files in a .WAV format onto your USB flash drive. Once you have finished this step you can follow the instructions below to burn the files to an audio CD.
  • Page 44 2. Pull the disc tray out all the way. 3. Insert your blank CD into the drive, pressing the disk onto the spindle in the middle of the disc tray.
  • Page 45 4. Press the disc tray back in until closed.
  • Page 46 5. On the PC screen, a window will pop up called ‘Burn a disc’. Here you can give the disc a title.
  • Page 47 6. You’ll want to select the option “with a CD/DVD player” in order to create a mastered disc that will play in your car or home stereo. Once selected, click the NEXT button. 7. A window will open up for the DVD RW drive (D:). Under Files ready to be Written to Disc there might be some leftover files from before.
  • Page 48 8. Right-click with the mouse on the selected files to open the menu selection menu. Select delete. 9. The window should now be clear of files.
  • Page 49 10. Using the mouse, click on your USB drive on the left-hand pane to navigate over to where your audio files are saved. I have mine saved under the audio album for this example. I’ll left click on Audio album to open this folder in the file explorer window. 11.
  • Page 50 12. The files will be copied over the DVD queue. 13. Once done, click on the DVD RW Drive (D:) on the left-side panel to re-open the DVD drive window.
  • Page 51 14. Inside this window you’ll see the files you added under Files ready to be written to the Disc. You’re now ready to proceed with the copying process. Right click on any of the white space under the filenames of your audio files. Right click in here! 15.
  • Page 52 16. A new window opens You can designate the disc title again, select a recording speed (24x is recommended). Then click on the next button to proceed. 17. On the next screen select “make and audio CD” (for standard audio CD players)” Then click the next button.
  • Page 53 18. The Windows Media Player program will open. It will show a Burn list on the right side of the screen with your audio files listed. Click on the Start burn button to proceed with the burn process. 19. You files will now be burned to the CD (will take several minutes to complete).
  • Page 54 20. Once finished, the PC will eject the DVD drive tray. You can go ahead and open the tray all the way and remove your completed CD. Make sure you label it appropriately using a permanent marker! 21. Back on the PC screen, you can close the Windows media program by clicking the red button with the X at the top right of the program’s window.
  • Page 55 22. Navigate in the file explorer back to the DVD RW drive D: You’ll still see your files in the queue. Select them and click on the Delete button to clear the queue list for the next person.
  • Page 56 24. You are all finished. Remember to remove your completed CD and USB flash drive to take with you. Thank you for using our Ion USB Cassette Converter! Please feel free to leave a comment in the comment box. We’d love to hear about your experience.