Audio Recorder 2.0 Deluxe
My father was a deejay all of my life (and even before my life got started).
Audio, captured in a variety of mediums, has been an ever-present fixture in the backdrop of my life.
My father used to put a tape recorder near to my brother and I while we played, talked, and sang songs. It is so sweet to listen to those aging tapes now. I can hardly believe that the squeaky little voice belonged to a preschool me!
I remember playing records in the living room with my brother. Imitating our father, we also “performed” our very own “radio show” which we recorded on cassette tape.
Listening to those tapes transports me back to my childhood and the cinder-block rancher in which I grew up. It is important to me that I preserve these memories, even as the cassette ribbons begin to crumble with age.
Audio Recorder Deluxe 2.0 is a complete package of hardware and software that allows you to convert LP’s, Cassettes and other recorded media into MP-3 and Audio CDs!
I found this commercial on YouTube, in case you don’t like to read my pesky words:
My favorite thing about the Audio Recorder 2.0 Deluxe software is that it has an Easy Wizard Mode, for those who don’t really know what they are doing, as well as an Advanced Mode for professionals!
Hardware, cable & software are all included, and the instructions are detailed.
Audio Recorder 2.0 Deluxe retails for $79.99 at HonesTech.com.
To enter for a chance to win
Audio Recorder 2.0 Deluxe for yourself, leave a comment telling me what kind of audio memories you would want to convert first!
One winner will be chosen at random.
This giveaway is open to US residents.
This contest will close on January 8, 12 midnight CST.
*congrats to Carissa!*
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30 December 2008, 3:51 am
we have all sorts of tapes to convert too, especially family get togethers- would be neat to save
30 December 2008, 3:53 am
I was just telling my son about my first am/fm transistor radio that I would listen to under the covers at night. I still have a ton of cassettes I would love to convert. Thanks!
30 December 2008, 3:58 am
My sister and I talking when we were children and my parents wedding.
30 December 2008, 4:16 am
I have alot of cassettes I would love to convert.
Great Prize!
30 December 2008, 4:17 am
Great item. Thank you for the chance to win.
30 December 2008, 4:25 am
I’d tape my mother to get her memories because she is old.
30 December 2008, 4:27 am
Be still my heart! This is exactly what we need to get our music organized!
30 December 2008, 4:30 am
This would be wonderful, I have a lot of old audio cassette tapes from interviews of my grandfather, about how life was in the late 1800’s. I could transform all those into cd’s or digital.
great giveaway, Thanks!
30 December 2008, 4:31 am
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30 December 2008, 4:32 am
I would convert a tape with my father-in-law on it.He passed away 14 years ago and we need to preserve the memories.
30 December 2008, 4:40 am
I have dug this contest
30 December 2008, 4:42 am
I would convert tapes with me and my sister doing radio shows when we were about 7 and 8 years old. We used 45’s in the show, too, so those would also get preserved! I have been wanting one of these devices for a long time. Thanks for doing this!
30 December 2008, 4:48 am
Very cool giveaway!
I didn’t know there was such a thing. Luv 2 win one.
30 December 2008, 5:28 am
What a great product
30 December 2008, 5:32 am
We just renewed our vows for our 15th wedding anniversary. We played the same music we played 15 years ago. i would love to put that on a audio CD first!
30 December 2008, 5:34 am
Cool item would do tons of old tapes
30 December 2008, 5:50 am
Nice prize.
Happy New Year
30 December 2008, 5:51 am
omg this is too funny, but since space is an issue in this closet of an apartment and I’m also considering relocation in 2009, part of my new years resolutions this year was to finally convert every tape and vinyl I own to digital. There are tapes my mom recorded of me as a little girl and tapes from my sleepovers, my friends and I would tell ghost stories and tape each other telling the story and when we listen to them today it always makes us laugh. One tape snapped already and I’d hate to lose any others. This would be a huge lifesaver and help me to meet one of my new years resolutions, cool!
30 December 2008, 6:04 am
I have been married for 30 years and would love to get some of our old recordings on CDs
30 December 2008, 6:21 am
Thanks for the chance to win this fabulous prize!
30 December 2008, 6:26 am
My parents and grandparents are all gone now. If I could put all the old tapes of my parents, and the one I know of of my grandfather, I would love to be able to listen to them again.
30 December 2008, 7:42 am
I have quite a few old cassette tapes that this would work to convert
30 December 2008, 8:15 am
Wow - it’s good to know that there is a product like this out there. I also saw a smilar product that converts VHS to DVD. Both would be nice to have.
30 December 2008, 10:29 am
ahhh, the cassette recordings of I and my sisters from when we were kids… those were the days.
30 December 2008, 11:44 am
Move my vinyl to my mp3 player!
30 December 2008, 11:46 am
We have lots of music on tape
30 December 2008, 11:53 am
my mother telling stories in Polish
30 December 2008, 12:21 pm
I have all of my old lps and some tapes when I used to jam with my friends.
30 December 2008, 2:18 pm
My old cassettes need to be converted!
30 December 2008, 2:36 pm
I have my parents record collection.
30 December 2008, 2:48 pm
I used to perform in a church folk group in the 70’s and this would be a perfect project for me to convert these memories to pass on to my children
30 December 2008, 3:10 pm
I sing in church and at retirement homes and would love to convert my casettes (especially the ones I can’t seem to find on CD). Thanks for the giveaway!
30 December 2008, 4:33 pm
My old record collection needs to be transferred.
30 December 2008, 5:08 pm
I have lots of LPs that are precious to me, memory-wise…I’d love to transfer them to CDs.
30 December 2008, 5:12 pm
I have some very, very old reel-to-reel tapes of my dad and his sisters and brothers that I would love to convert to CD and give to the rest of my family.
30 December 2008, 5:13 pm
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30 December 2008, 5:43 pm
Old family audio.
30 December 2008, 5:48 pm
I don’t think I’d use it for musical tapes and LPs.
Actually, we have one of those old “Home Alone” recorders and the kids sing songs they’ve made up, they pretend they are on talk shows “And ACTiON” as well as their belt outs in the shower of any type of song that comes to them!
30 December 2008, 6:35 pm
I would love to be able to convert my cassettes and vinyl to digital. Looks like great software.
30 December 2008, 6:44 pm
I have a lot of old cassettes and even records, but more so to convert all the christmases from my childhood and even collection of old country/blue grass tapes that were left from my grandparents that passed away
30 December 2008, 7:15 pm
I have thousands of tapes and vinyl to convert. I would love to convert all my old dance music to exercize to.
30 December 2008, 7:43 pm
believe it or not all of my old 8 tracks
30 December 2008, 7:51 pm
Some old songs I have on cassette
30 December 2008, 8:07 pm
All the old records I have that aren’t on cd or online
30 December 2008, 10:36 pm
We have a lot of old cassettes and LPs and I have a collection of comedy albums I would probably convert first.
30 December 2008, 10:55 pm
The first thing that I would try to do to try to put my kids old school plays and concerts on it. It seems ver cool!
30 December 2008, 11:59 pm
Ohh man, I have a bunch of old audio goodies I could convert with this! awesome giveaway, thanks so much!
Happy New Year
31 December 2008, 12:13 am
My favorite old songs from the good ole days.
31 December 2008, 12:21 am
I have an old recording of my great grandmother talking at a family reunion. She’s passed now and this is the only recording of her voice so I would love to share it
31 December 2008, 12:35 am
I would start with my children’t birth videos.
31 December 2008, 1:12 am
I can’t believe it. My man has been wanting a gadget that could do this for the past 6 years neither he nor I knew such a thing existed. He has been playing and singing in a band for the past 20 years and has all their old stuff on cassettes and he has wanted to record them all on to CD’s forever now. He has seen members come and go over the years and he treasures these cassettes. The first thing he would convert over to CD’s would be his band tapes which is well over 70 cassettes not to mention the 500 or more cassettes tapes he bought over the years that he still listens too. Some are so worn and need replacing. One tape he will surely have to do for me is an old DR.Hook cassette that I just love. I still can’t believe you found this item!!! I just showed him the video. He is sitting behind me saying I got to have that. You know I want that. I just got to have that. lol lol He is worse than the kids when he gets excited. Thanks for Sharing
31 December 2008, 1:33 am
You know I’d just have to blog about this item.Scott is just so excited about this giveaway and usually he pays no attention to what I am or am not blogging about but he is reading over my shoulder now (Scott go away) lol sorry he is totally bugging me now. Thanks Again
31 December 2008, 1:38 am
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31 December 2008, 1:47 am
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31 December 2008, 2:11 am
All of my old albums…guess that really dates me huh?
31 December 2008, 3:08 am
I’d love to be able to give this to my hubby. He’d really enjoy it and is most-deserving. Many thanks!
31 December 2008, 3:47 am
I have some cassettes done by my older relatives as well as my truck drivin’ guitar-playin’ cousins. It would be great to save them in a format the current generation uses so they would have another and richer perspective on their older family members.
31 December 2008, 4:11 am
My dad has a pretty good record collection. I’d love to convert them to CD for him. Thanks!
31 December 2008, 4:14 am
I’ve twittered the contest, coriwestphal.
31 December 2008, 4:15 am
And I’ve stumbled the post, coriwestphal.
31 December 2008, 4:19 am
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31 December 2008, 6:36 am
Oh, it’s so tough to choose! I would love to record the old tapes I have sitting under my bed from middle school and early high school!! They always take me back…especially those recorded off the radio, with commercials still in tact!!
31 December 2008, 6:58 am
My only child’s first words “Mama” uttered so many years ago.
31 December 2008, 8:13 am
Long ago I worked for a record company. So many albums that will never be seen again. I would love to be able to preserve them.
31 December 2008, 1:30 pm
i have a lot of things to transfer over sounds good
31 December 2008, 4:30 pm
I would love to tinker with this!
31 December 2008, 4:54 pm
This would be so great! I have cassettes that a friend made, he played guitar and sang. I would love to preserve them since he is no longer able to sing and play. Thanks for the chance!
31 December 2008, 5:42 pm
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31 December 2008, 6:37 pm
I would LOVE to win this I have tapes when my children was born and thats 25years oftapes in the closent full of 3 kids. THANK YOU!!
31 December 2008, 6:58 pm
i would like to record my granddaughter singing and olaying. also my daughters (2) silliness
31 December 2008, 7:07 pm
my brother and i had a radio show too! i definitely need it preserved like this!
31 December 2008, 7:10 pm
My mother gave me audio tapes from old family events as well as my fathers days in Civil defense. I have some old recordings of garage band practices that would be great to digitize and manipulate on the computer.
Thanks for the giveaway!
31 December 2008, 8:06 pm
I wrote and recorded a lot of songs back in the 90’s on cassette tapes with home equipment. I would love to convert these songs to cd’s. Happy New Year!!!
31 December 2008, 10:59 pm
We have an old tape recorder that my 5 year old loves to use. I would love to transfer some of the stuff he records to digital. That plus it would motivate me to record our 1 year old as well. I also think my dad has a tape of me and my brother when we were little. I would transfer that as well.
31 December 2008, 11:44 pm
I would want to record my niece singing. She is so cute but only sings every once in a while. Thanks!
31 December 2008, 11:51 pm
I would convert a cassette tape I have from when I was 8 and interviewing my great granparents for a school project.
01 January 2009, 2:20 am
I would convert all of my old albums from the 70s and 80s.
01 January 2009, 3:05 am
Without a doubt, it would be my son’s first real belly laugh. I recorded it on a cassette and have it carefully stored away.
Thanks for the nice giveaway.
01 January 2009, 3:47 am
just stories about my own parents, for my grandchildren.
they didn’t get to meet my folks, and I want them to know things about them.
01 January 2009, 6:22 am
love to record youngest singing
01 January 2009, 7:02 am
i have thousands of 45’s and would like to put them on cd’s so i could listen to them
01 January 2009, 5:17 pm
My husband lived in Argentina for 2 years when he was younger, and the only way he could talk to his family was through tapes mailed back and forth. I’d love to convert those for him!
01 January 2009, 6:19 pm
My grandfather used to record my sister and I performing our own radio plays and reading stories. I would love to put those treasured tape recordings on CD or ipod for my mom and my sister to enjoy. Thank you for the great give-away.
01 January 2009, 6:37 pm
I’d love to get my cassettes on CD’s.
01 January 2009, 8:26 pm
Our New Year resolution is to organize 52 years of memories. This would sure help out on a huge project.
Thanks and the best in 2009.
01 January 2009, 10:42 pm
I have a cassette (a Woolworth brand cassette no less) of my older brother who we lost to heart disease when he was 42, leaving me a message to be good while he was away at college. He was 20 and I was 5. I would love to preserve his voice forever.
02 January 2009, 1:08 am
I’ve got a large number of LPs that I would dearly love to convert onto my computer and CDs
02 January 2009, 4:06 am
I have so many old tapes. This would be so helpful!
02 January 2009, 4:35 am
I would convert tapes of my friends goofing off that I made in college.
02 January 2009, 5:06 am
some of my son’s
02 January 2009, 12:44 pm
my old tapes
02 January 2009, 6:52 pm
I’d convert an immense pile of cassette tapes and vinyls but I’d start with my YES albums. Please accept my entry. Thank you.
02 January 2009, 9:06 pm
old tapes
02 January 2009, 9:24 pm
I would convert family Christmas caroling first.
02 January 2009, 11:39 pm
Oh man would I love to have this. We have LOTS of Southern Gospel music we would like to get onto CD’s.
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03 January 2009, 3:19 pm
My daughters’ singing woyld be great to record.
03 January 2009, 5:16 pm
just cleaned out our stereo cambinet and found ton of them - would love to convert!!!
03 January 2009, 6:57 pm
My tapes from when I was little.
03 January 2009, 8:56 pm
All the Best!!!!
04 January 2009, 12:09 am
My mother had a radio show in the 1950s. I plan to convert her recordings into digital files and distribute them to family menbers on CD.
Thanks
04 January 2009, 1:03 am
Love tapes my DH made for me!
04 January 2009, 7:17 am
I’d transfer LP’s to CD’s
04 January 2009, 4:52 pm
I have so many things I could use this for, old home videos especially!
04 January 2009, 4:52 pm
Im a subscriber!!
04 January 2009, 9:13 pm
I would love an audio recorder for my grandchildren. They say the funniest things and one can’t remember them after wards. This would be a great way to save precious moments.
04 January 2009, 10:06 pm
I would LOVE to win this for my hubby. His dad recorded a ton of audio tapes as my husband was growing up and now that his dad passed away we really need to preserve these memories.
05 January 2009, 12:18 am
nice!
05 January 2009, 4:31 am
The sound of my grnaddaughter giggling and laughing
05 January 2009, 4:47 am
My vinyl collection, and some old mix tapes from the ’80s
05 January 2009, 4:57 am
My kids while they are still sort of little and my parents who are getting up in age.
05 January 2009, 9:28 pm
I have many cassettes of my MIL who would teach at woman’s groups and it would be great to convert those for the family.
05 January 2009, 11:39 pm
Memories of my little sisters and I growing up producing fake radio stations on cassette and other fun times.
06 January 2009, 1:16 am
Def/ I would transfer My sons Corey’s first steps. He had a look of pure joy when it happened
06 January 2009, 6:20 am
Audio tape recordings of my grandfather’s memories. I have some on cassettes that I recorded many years ago. He died in 1999 at 94 1/2 years old.
06 January 2009, 7:46 am
Would love to record the kids before they get older
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06 January 2009, 4:11 pm
I have held on to some of my irreplacable vinyl records from living in Peru, and some women’s groups from the 60’s and 70’s. Many people would be happy if I could convert these.
06 January 2009, 4:38 pm
I’d love to convert all of our family movies, old records, tapes, etc.
06 January 2009, 5:01 pm
My Duran Duran, Smiths, and Cure albums from high school.
06 January 2009, 5:03 pm
I would love to have recordings of my kids playing music!
06 January 2009, 5:04 pm
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06 January 2009, 5:07 pm
MY children’s laughter, and my daughters singing.
06 January 2009, 6:19 pm
I would love to convert so many things from my past like my kids singing when they were babies, and my grandparents singing and playing music at the nursing homes. Wow! What a product. I would be honored if I won this.
06 January 2009, 6:34 pm
I would convert some wedding tapes!
06 January 2009, 11:51 pm
My husband’s long gone father was a singer. He has many tapes that we have never heard. I think he would appreciate them.
07 January 2009, 3:27 am
I would convert the tapes I made with my garage band when I was in high school.
07 January 2009, 5:04 am
I have some recordings of my daughter when she first started talking, I would love toconvert that!
07 January 2009, 5:42 am
a lot of old records, that would be cool!
07 January 2009, 6:21 am
We used to make cassette recordings a lot when I was little. I have one tape with my grandma reciting a poem. She died about 30 years ago. I’d like to rip that recording and send it to all my cousins. In fact, I promised to do that at the last reunion…
07 January 2009, 8:27 am
Mixed tapes I used make when I was a kid
07 January 2009, 2:41 pm
The laughter and voices of my children…they grow up so quickly.
07 January 2009, 3:55 pm
My husband had a radio show in college and he recorded some of his program onto tape. I would love to convert some of these tapes into MP3 files so that our kids can listen to them when they get older. I think that they would get a real kick out of hearing their father on the air.
07 January 2009, 6:06 pm
I’d like to record memories of my granddaughter.
07 January 2009, 9:34 pm
I would like to convert the tape that my cousin and I made nearly twenty years ago on a trip to Florida with my grandparents.
07 January 2009, 9:46 pm
family tapes, movies and cassette
07 January 2009, 9:50 pm
Oh man, I had some serious mixed tapes from when i was a kid that were perfect….it all added to the music when you heard the dj at the end of the song b/c you taped it off the radio ahhah
07 January 2009, 10:38 pm
I have cassette tapes of my daughters from the 1980’s. My oldest daughter had a Fisher Priice recorder and taped her and her sisters whenever they were playing. Those times are so precious to me, and I worry about the tapes breaking or just wearing out. This software would be a God send to save those invaluable memories.
07 January 2009, 10:53 pm
My band could certainly use this!!!
08 January 2009, 12:31 am
my mother who now has Alz. we have her in better days on cassette tape, tapes that are getting old and fragile no doubt
08 January 2009, 1:16 am
I would love to convert those cassettes that contain my girls’ first years when they were young and sweet and actually got along.
08 January 2009, 2:56 am
I would want to convert the tapes that both I and my husband have of our old band concerts.
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08 January 2009, 3:33 am
I didn’t know there was anything like this. We have a tape from our wedding I’d convert. I love hearing us saying our vows to each other.
08 January 2009, 4:26 am
Old tapes that I have.
08 January 2009, 4:28 am
My husband and I have a large record collection from our youths, and my parents amassed an even larger collection. They also have reel-to-reel tapes of concerts they attended. But, the most precious tape that I’d like to convert is the microcassette in my parents’ answering machine. It’s just a standard “we can’t come to the phone right now” message, but it’s my dad’s voice, and he died last year, and I’m so afraid the tape is going to get erased or warped or torn and it’ll be lost. It’s the last thing I have of him.
08 January 2009, 4:40 am
My very old collection of LPs that I love but never listen to any more. Thanks for the contest.
08 January 2009, 5:24 am
I am a DJ and would love to record my mixes this way
08 January 2009, 6:07 am
I have a box of reel-to-reel tapes that include family tree interview with most of my grandparents and a couple of great-grandparents and -aunts, etc… And some that my father recorded of radio broadcasts of various shows popular back when broadcasting was just getting started.
More techie-type tools would probably be needed to extract SOME of those signals, but this would be a heck of a start!!
08 January 2009, 6:12 am
Considering that it is getting harder and harder to find replacements for the old-fashioned turntable/tape-player/radio combo currently in the entertainment center, for when it decides to kick the bucket, I have six liquor boxes of cherished LPs that need some preservative action taken…
08 January 2009, 8:31 am
I’d like to convert reel to reel tapes to CDs and cassettesof our father playing the accordion and guitar, when he was still with us.
The recordings would bring us warm and pleasant memories of a hard working steelworker who liked to relax playing accordion and guitar for family and friends….
thank you for offering this as a prize.
Sincerely,
Tony Pietzak
08 January 2009, 10:36 am
I’d love to convert our family story telling sessions from when I was a little girl to CD. That would be most magical!!!
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08 January 2009, 10:46 am
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08 January 2009, 1:04 pm
I would love to copy our old LP’s for the 60s and 70s especially Kenny Rankin
08 January 2009, 3:55 pm
When my triplet daughters were younger they would sing none stop..they would put on little shows in our family room, dressing up in all sorts of costumes. After setting up folding chairs they would even make crayon colored tickets to see the shows. I have several cassette tapes of their performances that i would love to preserve of those wonderful memories. It would be especially fun to surprise my daughters who are now 22 years old.
08 January 2009, 4:42 pm
I would like to record my daughter’s dance recitals. and family holidays.
08 January 2009, 6:12 pm
I Would convert audio of my kids when they were little
08 January 2009, 6:42 pm
I would convert some old mix tapes from my college days…talk about memories! Thanks for the giveaway.
08 January 2009, 6:44 pm
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08 January 2009, 6:45 pm
My old cassettes of my mother’s memories need to be converted! On several occasions we sat down with my mother and recorded stories about what it was like when she grew up, how she met my father, funny stories about relatives, and even her days as a “stewardess” and being asked out on dates by Gene Autry. She is 92 years young… and we still record her stories and memories. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
08 January 2009, 6:49 pm
We have all sorts of tapes to convert too.
08 January 2009, 7:23 pm
I ahve over 200 cassette tapes & would love to convert them before they get to dmaged to enjoy any longer!
08 January 2009, 7:49 pm
It would be great to convert my old high school choir concerts.
08 January 2009, 8:11 pm
ok I have never seen my films of when my sisters and I were babies they are the first I would convert!!!
08 January 2009, 9:20 pm
i want to convert my cassette tapes of precious voice recordings!
08 January 2009, 9:45 pm
I have a video of my kids when they were babies (1 & 2) with their father in it. It’s the last video we have of their dad that would be wonderful to convert.
08 January 2009, 10:25 pm
I would love to win this to record my kids talkng and playing their instruments!
08 January 2009, 10:31 pm
My grandma passed away in 1979 and i always taped her on cassette. I still have her voice on a few and would love to hear her voice once again in a better clearer tone. PLEASE PICK ME!
08 January 2009, 10:53 pm
I would want to convert home movies of my friends and family.
08 January 2009, 11:56 pm
I have 2 cassettes that I cherish. One is a recording of my wedding, which includes a prayer given by my late grandpa. The other is a cassette that was made not long before my dad’s death with my parents singing a duet.
09 January 2009, 12:48 am
I would like to convert all my family audio tapes that I have lying around for the last 20 years into chronological order.
09 January 2009, 4:49 am
I’d tape my mother to get her memories because she is getting older and has lots of neat family stories.