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Mastering a digital mix to analog tape and back.

I read somewhere that sometimes a digital mix will be put onto analog tape and then converted back to digital in an effort to induce the warmth of analog tape.

Is this a common procedure, and how effective is it at doing just that, namely adding some warmth or body, or replicating an analog sound?

Improving extracted audio from video.

My friend was videotaped playing at a local radio station, and I am charged with the task of making the audio sound like it was not recorded from a video camera.

The performance included a singer/acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar, and djembe/shakers.

I extracted the audio just fine, and here is what I did: