A very good friend of mine (who helped me out in a BIG way a couple of years back) mentioned that he wanted to get some old cassettes into digital format a short while ago, but had no way to do it. Step up me.
I grabbed a Technics cassette deck from eBay, dug out my Zoom H1 and a 128GB TF card, rigged up the Arcam amp as a pre to my various mastering active speakers, and here I am ripping from a cassette! Great fun.
I did the first track separately as a try out...
Recorded the analogue into the H1, TF card into the Mac, file into an editor, removed the hiss (as much as I could without killing the dynamics) from a sample section, ran the track on repeat via Fidelia whilst adjusting the parametric and AUGraphic EQs until it sounded full and "right", re-recorded it within the digital domain at 16/44.1, added a touch of compression, rewrote the tags and artwork - and hey presto, one superb sounding track, otherwise lost in the analogue domain, in full digital and distributable once again.
Great fun this! I love messing about with audio.
What's your Saturday evening doing?
Some rather HEAVY processing needed just to get the levels square!