Re: How to analyse and "optimise" a frequency spectrum? (digitising tapes)

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"Jeanette C." <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Fons,
> thanks for your helpful feedback, comments and suggestions. It seems
> that I am best served by polishing the recording manually after all.
> Well, it was just three tapes with radioplays, so it will only be six
> files to fix. And the fixing I intended to do was static, i.e. no
> automation as in DAW automation. By automated I meant having a program
> that would analyse the recording and suggest a few values for that
> static polishing process. It's more a question of personal comfort than
> creating files that are ready for public release.
>
> I couldn't do much about the level of the tape I used to digitise the
> tapes, since it is a USB tape deck. I can also only assume that it is in
> good health, being rarely used, well stored and of rather adequate
> quality.

Cassette tape?  I have a pretty good one of those (though with regard to
head azimuth, there usually is no better than the one the recording has
been made on) as well as good sound cards.  Dolby B and Dolby C would be
available if the recording had been made with either.

I could offer to try.  On the downside, I have a power landline a
quarter mile off which tends to be annoying for unbalanced equipment
(single coil guitar pickups are sort of a non-option, and I have quite a
bit of practice redoing the internal routing of audio hardware such that
magnetic fields don't squeeze between connections where it counts).  So
there may be a use case for a very narrow 50Hz notch filter in the
postprocessing.

All the best

-- 
David Kastrup
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