A few years ago, my church had to make a crucial decision on how to proceed with audio recordings.  Our cassette tape library was growing, but the shelf life of cassette tapes is not very long.  Our library goes back to the early 1990s and, as a result, the quality was very degraded.  After much discussion, the church was in agreement that we needed to upgrade our recording equipment.

The church now has a CD/Cassette recorder combo that was purchased from Long’s Electronics.  Although a little pricy, this unit has proven to be a workhorse for our audio recording needs.  We can dub from cassette to CD and from CD to cassette with the push of a button.  The CD also has a feature that will automatically begin recording the next track when there is a momentary pause in the audio.

All in all, we are very pleased with the transition to CD recordings.  As compared to cassettes, CD storage is also a great spacesaver!

My next post will be on recording worship services on the computer.