Hi Howard.

I use the three programs that I just mentioned to Hank.  I use Audacity to 
clean up any speed errors, Groove Mechanic to remove the tape his, and Nero 
Wave Editor if I need to boost the high frequency end at all.

Generally, I do not use the Dolby NR on the cassette deck as I find that it 
beats up the high frequency too much, and the noise reduction algorithm in 
Groove Mechnic does a better job.

73, de Lou K2LKK

P.S.  If you have access to an external synthesizer for your screen reader, 
you'll get a lot better results with your recordings.  The software 
synthesizers take too much processor time to allow programs like Audacity 
and Groove Mechnic to process in real time, which will cause your 
recordings to break up, have drop outs, record at the wrong speed, or even 
occasionally come out blank.

If you don't have access to a hardware synthesizer, I can send you some 
quick and dirty scripts that I wrote to toggle the speech off and on while 
processor intensive tasks are running.



At 02:28 AM 8/31/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>I can get a good copy to the hard drive when I record open reel or
>lp, but for some reason any processing of cassette audio gives me
>garbage.  How do you put cassettes on the hard drive, and do you do
>anything to clean up the audio?
>
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