Line level amplifier?

[RoryM0]

Hello.

I have a cassette deck that I want to use to record to and from my computer via an external soundcard. Recording to it is fine obviously, but the signal coming from it is of course much much weaker, because it should be going into a hi-fi amp or something as part of a stacking system before reaching speakers.

My question is, what's the simplest, no-frills device I can get to boost that signal before it reaches the soundcard?

Any advice and/or suggestions of gear welcome.

Thanks

[Winstontaneous]

If you are recording the tape deck signal back to the computer, you could just use a gain plugin like this in your DAW, or normalize the file once it's recorded.

Rolls and ART make stereo RCA mixers you could put inline, but they're at least $50.

[RoryM0]

Thank you Winstontaneous, that answers my question.