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Convert Cassette Tapes Into CD -Eliminate Hiss

by John Durham
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I am not an affiliate, but I thought this might be helpful for some older musicians here who have alot of stuff on cassette. I have been looking into it myself, because I recently found a bunch of cool old cassettes.... Sounds like a decent tool. Says it Eliminates the tape sounds and cleans up the recording...

Cassettes To CD, Cassettes to MP3s, cassettes to your iPod and LPs To CD Perfection
  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    WOW, I heard from an ex employee of DAK that they went bankrupt. They double charged me once, and I went to my bank. I showed them TWO transactions from the SAME place on the SAME card in the SAME MINUTE, and told them FLAT OUT that it was a double charge. The bank didn't care AT ALL! I later found that my bank was THEIRS also. My bank, soon after, failed to track the microfiche of a check. At the time, it was illegal to process a check over $5000 without microfiching. I say "at the time" because they tried to lower it to $3000, so I don't know what it is. Anyway, it is SO expensive to do MANUALLY, that they just microfiche ALL. So my little <$500 was supposed to be microfiched. A MONTH after they credited my account, they DEBITED it, claiming it never existed because it was never microfiched! Basically, they STOLE my money. The second they gave me my money back "provisionally", I shut down my account and stopped doing business with them. Maybe a year later it was my understanding that they went bankrupt. Wikipedia claims they "merged" with bank of america in 1992.

    So I HOPE the problem was with the bank, and not dak, and that they are good. I gave them many THOUSANDS of dollars, and the disputed charge was only like $50. It would have been VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE for it to be legitimate. The bank shouldn't even have honored it so easily.

    One interesting thing though, about him dealing with asian banks? The wikipedia summary is: Security Pacific National Bank (SPNB) was a large US bank headquartered in Los Angeles, California. In 1992, Bank of America acquired SPNB.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author John Durham
    I dont know anything about all that. I just came across it looking for a way to convert cassettes to Cds.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    John, I've been using a small recorder with a cassette player that has auto side 2 playback

    I simply take the analog out from the cassette player (it's actually a Tascam cassette deck), and put it into the line in of an Olympus LS-10 recorder. (Look it up on Amazon.). One could also use any of the newer PCM recorders designed for musicians.

    At any rate, this gives me a WAV file (or an MP3 depending on settings) that I can burn to CDs, or listen to in an MP3 player.

    For editing I use NCH Software's WavePad. Another good software is Reaper, and I guess editing can be done in Audacity too. I just use the noise reduction in WavePad to remove the hiss.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author John Durham
    Cool.

    Appreciate the input Don. I knew this subject would be of interest, or helpful to some!

    -John
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      John,

      I used to use a program called Bias Soundsoap for cleaning up hiss and other unwanted sounds from old recordings. It was real easy to use, and worked awesome. Unfortunately, the company went out of business, and my old copy of Soundsoap doesn't work on Windows 7 (even in "XP" mode).

      But if you have an XP machine, you could probably find a copy of it on Ebay for really cheap (it was only like $80 when it was new). It actually compares with some of the best noise removal plugins on the market, in my opinion (that cost > $1,000), and goes without saying that it beats the snot out of all of the "free" noise removal options I've heard (Audacity, free VST plugins, etc).

      Also, you can get rid of a fair amount of hiss simply by using a parametric EQ to sweep the upper frequency range until you find the bulk of the offending frequencies, then notch them down a few dB's. Not as good of a solution as using a proper noise removal plugin, but if you're not too picky about the end result, it's a lot better than nothing.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I found this
    Convert Any Cassette Tape To CD & MP3 | Cassette2USB™ Converter
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanEagle
    That's pretty cool. Some of my favorite old school hip hop albums are on cassette.
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