From datafreq Sent Sun, Sep 26th 1999, 15:36
From datafreq Sent Sun, Sep 26th 1999, 15:36
At 02:28 PM 26/09/99 -0700, Michael Shepherd wrote: >A friend just found and let me borrow a cassette of Future [Shock]'s "...For >the Seekers" ep. I have been looking for this tape for approximately three >years now. When I return it, I will probably never see it again. > >Can anybody tell me how to digitally immortalize this tape into mp3's or >onto cd? I have the Mac OS, but I also have access to Windows (with an >internal cd burner that still needs to be hooked up) , so I'll accept >instructions for either operating system. Should I record each track >separately onto the hard drive and then convert each track into mp3's? How >do you do that? Any other suggestions are appreciated. > >Thanks. you'll want to clean up the tape with some sort of "restoration" software, i personally like the noise reduction plugins on soundforge, but there are lots more out there. ask around , as many people have different preferences... record each track onto your hard drive, and clean them up one at a time, you might have to do a bit of normalizing and/or compression/limiting as well , to sort out the levels. for converting to mp3's, i like audiocatalyst because it's a nice stable program, and it gives you a lot of encoding options, once again, ask around...these are only my preferences :) hope some of this helps, dave