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Mastering spoken word advice needed.

I mainly do spoken word recordings in my project studio. I have a good signal chain (R84 or NTK, UA6176 or STT-1, Apogee PSX-100, Lynx AES16, Sound Forge 7.0, Event PS8 monitors). I would appreciate any advice from those of you that master spoken word as to what steps you take and what common factors you consider most in mastering spoken word. Thank you.
SG

Advice please

Any advice on getting the best sound when transfering audio from cassette into my DAW (PT - 001)? I'm assuming I should use SPDIF connection - but then what about level and more so, tape hiss and background noise? Anyway to attenuate that without a plugin (EQ maybe?)? If not, is there a cheap or free plugin anyone could point me to?