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Re: Remastering an old cassette recorded live

Posted by Thrifty Audiophile (A) on January 3, 2003 at 20:00:16

In Reply to: Re: Remastering an old cassette recorded live posted by Joe T on January 3, 2003 at 06:04:22:

> I see you mentioned you wanted to preserve them in an
> analog format, but I would also suggest you archive them
> to CDr as well to prevent any further degragation. From

What I'd really like to do is get these archived to vinyl
LPs. :-) Is there any way to do this inexpensively for a
very small quantity of records?

> there you can use alot of available software in the digital
> domain down the road. As far as the analog transfer, I would
> try to apply all the clean up tricks on the first pass since
> each transfer is bound to have some sort of generation loss.

I'm not sure that I could get clean-up tricks right on the
first try, except, perhaps, using a noise gate, so, I'm going
to dub the cassette twice onto 1/4" tape, checking for any
signs of tape disintegration after each dub. If the tape
path appears clean after both dubbings, I'll then attempt to do
a few clean up tricks while dubbing again. Does this sound
reasonable?

> Also, treat your tape heads to a demag and cleaning prior to

Yes, I'll definitely get the old plastic-coated wire-wound
nail out and power it up to demagnetize the heads. :-) (my
cheap home-made demagnetizer)

Another thing that I should do is obtain test tapes from Teac
and check the head alignment, etc. for the playback deck.

> transfer for the best possible sound. Since tape hiss is not
> a problem, I wouold also bypass the DBX. Use the best tool
> you have for mastering, your ears......

There's something that I don't quite understand about that,
and am wondering what I'm overlooking. Don't I also want to
use DBX on the signal into the 1/4 deck during dubbing, and by
bypassing the DBX, wouldn't I be increasing hiss while
dubbing?

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