Re: Cassette restoration

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Reel to reel, cassette and other analogue tape formats.

In Reply to: Cassette restoration posted by DBLD on January 13, 2006 at 10:31:47:

It sounds like he was using cheap cassettes. First, get some high quality cassette shells and transfer the reels from your father's cassettes into those. The easiest way to get shells is to buy some top-of-the-line cassettes and discard the reels that came inside them. I've always liked Maxell shells the best but others like TDK.
As far as the analog-to-digital transfer, if you're just recording spoken material, you don't have to worry too much about the fidelity. Any halfway decent sound card will do. There's tons of information available about doing digital transfers in Audio Asylum and in numerous bootleg music traders' websites and forums. You can get some good free software from:
http://www.hitsquad.com/

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Topic - Cassette restoration - DBLD 10:31:47 01/13/06 (8)

Thanks for the info so far everyone - DBLD 14:29:54 01/30/06 (0)

Re: Cassette restoration - Barry Rogoff 12:33:04 01/30/06 (0)

Re: Cassette restoration - DBLD 06:37:40 01/18/06 (1)

Re: Cassette restoration - Barry Rogoff 12:39:48 01/30/06 (0)

Re: Cassette restoration - Marantzguy 11:24:31 01/13/06 (3)

Re: Cassette restoration - DBLD 13:08:31 01/13/06 (2)

Re: Cassette restoration - PeterW the younger 18:24:21 01/15/06 (0)

You might try....... - DannyB 13:15:16 01/13/06 (0)

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Re: Cassette restoration - Barry Rogoff 12:33:04 01/30/06 (0)

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