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In article writes:

The cassettes are pretty nasty sounding. Between low quality cassette
stock being used, an overuse of reverb and a surprisingly noise 1/2" master
(which has since been destroyed which is why I've got to take it from the
mass produced cassette), the audio quality is pretty horrid.

So you do what you can. There isn't much that you can't correct if you
put enough time and effort into it, and have the right tools. Fixing
excessive reverberation is pretty hard to do. So is fixing flutter.
You can roll off the high end to reduce hiss but you have to be
careful about removing too much so that you lose articulation. It's
really worth playing the cassettes on a high quality deck, though, one
where it's easy to get to the head alignment. Transfer one song at a
time, and tweak the head alignment each time because it tends to
wander throughout the tape. You're taking about a several-step process
to even do a halfway decent job.

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