Digitising from a Cassette

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Re: Digitising from a Cassette

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jimi wrote:Looking for a recommendation on where to take old cassette tapes to have their contents recorded.

A work mate has found a few rare tapes from the 80s that he wants to convert to digital, but is concerned that they may have deteriorated to the point that he isn’t confident to put them into a cassette player.

Is there any place that specialises in preserving audio from cassette tapes?
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Id be keen to know somebody doing this in AKL, have a tape of a NZ band 7 Dials I want done and also a few band demo tapes.

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MakoGat wrote:Id be keen to know somebody doing this in AKL, have a tape of a NZ band 7 Dials I want done and also a few band demo tapes.
7 Dials were very fucking cool, good project.
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I have just bought a cassette unit off trademe so I can digitize a few family tapes. I have the interface and can burn CDs so I think the rest is easy - as long as the cassette unit doesn't chew my tapes.

We have a few cassettes that I realised we can't play any more. One of a band I was in during highschool, and a few others with long deceased family members' voices.

I'll let you know how I get on.
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
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Terexgeek wrote:
MakoGat wrote:Id be keen to know somebody doing this in AKL, have a tape of a NZ band 7 Dials I want done and also a few band demo tapes.
7 Dials were very fucking cool, good project.
Sure were,

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Just an update.

I picked up a cassette unit from trade me. Using my interface and logic I was able to transfer over some really special recordings and give them as a CD for Christmas.

I used logic to get rid of some of the tape hiss and a low hum that the recording had.

Very cool to be able to give somebody a recording of family members who have passed away.
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
Lawrence wrote: Every orchestra that comes thru here is a covers band as are most of the jazz bands...

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