On Dec 5, 3:10*am, Phillip wrote:
Hi there. I'm wondering whether there is any work around at all,
software or otherwise, to repair the sound of a cassette tape, that
was recorded on a tape deck a while ago and had this bad sound since
the beginning (to the fault of the deck's head or something else)...
Since wow and flutter have fairly well understood spectral
signatures, there's no reason why you should be able to at
least improve things-maybe significantly, but I don't know
that it's included in any of the standard audio packages.
These guys claim to have a process, for example:
http://www.plangentprocesses.com/
but it involves you sending the tape to them and having them
process it, which I assume is $$.
*Please* tell me this is something priceless
and one of a kind. You certainly wouldn't got through
this much work to rip old Boston cassettes
-jc
the tape is actually in good condition itself. Anyways, the sound of
the music on the cassette is what I guess is "wow and flutter" - as
well as some loss of high frequency. I don't think I have that deck
anymore what was used to record that tape...I just remember that the
head of that deck was quite dirty...
Sometimes, at a beginning of a song, possibly after another pause in
recording, the sound is very rich and "normal" for about 3 to 4
seconds, then drifts off into a more muffled sound with wow and
flutter.
I've read a bit about azimuth adjustment, but I think that's only to
increase the high frequency on a cassette recorded on another deck,
nothing to do with wow and flutter??
Is there anything that I can do, either with a deck or software (very
willing to try that out) to gain high frequency OR reduce the wow and
flutter? I've been restoring cassettes and records to mp3 for quite a
few years now.
Thanks!