Mark, I do restoration, so here are a few suggestions.
1. Make sure your cassette player is in good shape -- clean, able to pull tapes without damage, heads aligned. If not, STOP and send it out. 2. Note the tape tape. If it's 120-minute tape, send it out. 3. First, do NOT play the tape. Rewind/play a few times to loosen the tape pack. 4. Repackage the cassette if you hear any binding at all (happy to send you a clear cassette case; I should have some left). 5. Again, wind, rewind. Check the splice where the leader joins the tape by winding the tape forward with a pencil. 6. Set the playback correctly on the cassette deck (tape type, dolby on or off, etc.) 7. Play some of the tape and make sure it's going correctly. If it fades in/out or gets muffled, STOP. The tape is slipping and it will be damaged. Send it out. 8. Otherwise, take a small phillips screwdriver and adjust the tape head angle for best high-frequency playback while the tape is playing. It may not need any adjustment, but in any case will be small. Once you've got it playing well, the rest is up to do you. I don't use Macs, so can't recommend conversion software. I'm on PC and use a Saffire Pro 40 interface for conversion and clean up noise, etc., in Adobe Audition. Dennis On Sat, December 1, 2012 12:30 pm, Mark D Lew wrote: > I have a cassette tape recording from a live performance of mine from 20+ > years ago, and I want to convert it to a digital format. Nothing fancy. I > just want to be able to listen to it on a CD player or iTunes. > > What's the simplest way to do that? Is there some tool I can get to do it > myself, or should I take it to a service somewhere? And if the latter, what > should I be looking for? > > I'm on Mac, and I do still have a cassette tape player with an output jack. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
