[swany]

Most frugal thing I've found is a cassette recorder and plextools edition 7. It has a sound editor for downloading tape tracks, in the tools section of the recorder is all kinds of enhancements you can add after downloading, save it to a file on your hard drive burn to a cd. This is what I have, bought it just to convert tapes to cd's but have recorded several friends singing and transferred to cd for them. Take care and have fun. Swany