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  1. #1
    Join Date: Jan 2008

    Location: Norfolk, UK

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    Default Saturday evening - bit of cassette to digital

    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!




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    Glad that you are having fun, and not down the pub

    Me? I was watching Red Dwarf
    TT: Pro-ject 1.2, Ortofon Blue
    Phono stage: Muffsy
    Cd: Linn Karik
    Dac: Denafrips Ares II
    Amps: Pre: EleKit TU-8500, Power: Cambridge Audio Azur 651W
    Speakers: Chario Hiper Tower 2000
    Cables: Linn, Straight Wire & Chord Clearways
    Headphones:PC, Ifi Zen Air, Sennheiser HD450 & HD569

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    Nice! Always love a bit of Red Dwarf. My son, even though he's only 8, LOVES the episode Petey where the bird changes into a dinosaur.

    Ben Duncan mains conditioner
    2022 MacBook Pro 14" M1 Pro 10/16/16/16
    Samsung QE75Q90T 75" QLED TV
    XMOS DSD Async USB to Coax converter
    RME Audio ADI-2 FS (AK4493) DAC
    Chord Clearway XLR interconnects
    Audioquest Crimson USB interconnect
    QED Quartz Reference optical interconnect
    Edifier S3000 Pro active speakers
    Atacama SE24 stands

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    Quote Originally Posted by Filterlab View Post
    Nice! Always love a bit of Red Dwarf. My son, even though he's only 8, LOVES the episode Petey where the bird changes into a dinosaur.
    Yeah that is a good one
    TT: Pro-ject 1.2, Ortofon Blue
    Phono stage: Muffsy
    Cd: Linn Karik
    Dac: Denafrips Ares II
    Amps: Pre: EleKit TU-8500, Power: Cambridge Audio Azur 651W
    Speakers: Chario Hiper Tower 2000
    Cables: Linn, Straight Wire & Chord Clearways
    Headphones:PC, Ifi Zen Air, Sennheiser HD450 & HD569

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