[thelist] Audio Archives From Audio Tape

Ross,

If you use high quality cassettes and are not looking for studio quality music
you should be fine. Going to DAT will not really solve much and add a lot of
expense since you'll need a digital card to get it onto your computer, else
your still doing and analog transfer of the audio to your computer. Now I do
admit if you go through the expense ( I do have all this equipment) it does
make a difference say if you wanted to record the choir and make a CD, but then
you'd also have to invest in the rest of the audio equipment like Good Mics (
$300-400 ea), mixing board, etc... to make it worthwhile.

Now what I would do is capture from the audio tape via your sound card at the
highest possible/reasonable rate ( may also depend on your card) using a good
audio package. Contact me if your using a SBLive card there are some tricks to
it.
Now depending on what your original source sounds like you may need to clean it
up, take out the hiss, ambient noise etc.....

For this I use CoolEditPro which is a great tool especially when it comes to
cleaning up the track. For example we use it to clean up telephone calls which
are recorded for quality assurance. Then process them with Cool to remove the
tape hiss, phone line crap and also equalize the 2 voices on the track.

Hope this helps a bit.

Mike


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