Old audio cassette

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:49 am

Hey there,

I know it's not technically a pro audio thing but my area is mainly making as much noise as possible and I haven't had that much exp mastering.

Basically, my mate just brought round a very hectic rave tape. It's awesome, the only problem is that it's possibly a 5th or maybe 4th gen copy.

Anyone got any useful tips for cleaning up the audio or have done anything like this before? Any online resources?

Cheers

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you want to look for some kind of restoration software or plugins. there are de-hissers and such. good ones cost more, junky ones cost less. But they are all kind of expensive unless you do it for a living. not sure if there are really cheap ones worth trying out.

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:40 pm

Waves Restoration Kit
Waves Q10 for notching weird noise like 60hz, 120 hz hum and some hpfs and lpfs.
A bit of reverb and compression.

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:11 pm

Try to get a better more original copy if you can. 5th generation is pretty bad.

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:47 pm

MrHope wrote:

Try to get a better more original copy if you can. 5th generation is pretty bad.

You lose about 7% in every analog generation copy so you are already 35% less than you would have been using the original. NOT GOOD.

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