Preserving cassette tapes

Zane H. Healy wrote: :-) But that's exactly what I've done and seen others done. If you're a purist, you capture the tape at 24-bit/48KHz so that you can feed it without quality loss to the target machine. If you're more limited by space, or want to do some "free cleanup" at the same time, you digitize at 16-bit 32KHz and that also works. I know of at least one person who has repaired bad tapes by grabbing the file at 24/48 and then quantizing to an extreme level (like, 8-bit 22KHz) and also increases the volume a bit, both of which more clearly "presses" the waveform closer to the digital signal that created it. He writes that to a tape copy, and where the original won't load, the copy loads just fine. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/