How to Transfer an ADAT Recording to a CD

If you have an ADAT tape deck with a recording that you want to put on a CD it's not as difficult as it may seem. All you need is your ADAT tape deck, a computer with WaveCenter and Cool Edit Pro SE and a CD burner. Follow these steps to transfer an ADAT recording to a CD.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Follow the manual for your soundcard to set up then record from the ADAT tape deck. Connect an optical cable from the ADAT deck's output to the soundcard's input.

2. Transfer the recording to the PC by using the software, "Cool Edit Pro SE," that comes with the soundcard. To do this select "Single Wave Form" from the "Edit" menu then select "File,""New" and choose 48000 Hz. Click "Record" in the program and play on the ADAT recorder.

3. Click on "Edit" in Cool Edit Pro SE and select "Convert Sample Type." Choose 44100 Hz because that's the sample rate that is used for a CD.

4. Set the "Low-High Quality" slider to the best quality setting and check the "Pre/Post Filter" checkbox. Set all the channels to "Stereo."

5. Choose 16 bit resolution. If you recorded in 32 bit mode then also select dithering. Click on "File" then "Save." Choose the ".wav" file extension.

6. Burn a CD using a CD burning program. Most CD burning programs come with built-in software that can import the ".wav" files and transfer them to audio files that you can listen to on a CD player.