Be aware that you're probably not going to find any microcassette player with a real line output connection, except for the JBR unit. Instead, you'll probably be using the miniature phone jack output, which is designed for earphones or headphones. This brings up a potential problem of level and impedance mismatches going into the input of your WaveLab hardware. You need to experiment to adjust the output of the microcassette player to minimize distortion and noise. Noise might not be a problem, unless you reduce the output of the player too much, and distortion might not be a problem unless the output is very high or very low. Find a playback setting that works, and mark it. You also want to be aware that connecting two of these units together in this way makes a ground loop (resulting in hum) more likely if the player has an AC connection. For this reason, I've always used a battery operated microcassette player. I stick to the major name brands. This format has real problems anyway, not the least of which is that most microcassette recorders have built in mics which pick up motor noise during the original recording. So, in the entire scheme of things, I don't think you're losing too much by using a battery operated cheapie, in fact you may be doing better than using a mains operated unit with its potential ground loop problems. The JBR Tech cassette machines are much more than a thousand dollars, and they have several special purpose features not available anywhere else. They are built to order. I think 3M made such machines back in the day; they are mainly for forensic work, especially for provenance and authenticity. For example, they have heads closer to the leader tape so they can detect the record start signature, i.e. the place where recording first started in relation to virgin tape. Unfortunately, I don't know of any microcassette player, not even the JBR Tech, that has adjustable azimuth. Because of the relatively slow tape speed, it would be desirable to be able to adjust playback head azimuth easily for this format. So, if I were you, I would pick up a good quality, name brand portable microcassette recorder/player, and save your money for something else, like a good audio card. It's not an intuitive solution, but it's worked for me. --- Parker Dinkins MasterDigital Corporation CD Mastering + Audio Restoration http://masterdigital.com on 3/23/06 11:25 AM US/Central, Brandon Burke at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Does anyone have further (or updated) recommendations regarding > microcassette players? > > Something with (at least) one 1/8" output? > I will be plugging the unit into a mixing board and editing the audio in > WaveLab from there, if that helps any. > > As for the JBR mentioned below, sounds nice and all, but I'm thinking > something significantly less expensive than "multiple thousand dollars". > Not cheap, mind you, but a little more on the reasonable side.