[audacity4blind] Re: improving the highs when converting cassettes
- From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:44:46 -0600
Are these home recorded cassettes or prerecorded cassettes? While you can
artificially make the cassettes sound as though they have more and brighter
highs by using effects, it is not actually improving the underlying sound
quality. Assuming the recordings are good quality to start with, the problem
is a head alignment problem on the deck. You can emphasize highs using effects
but a head alignment problem causes some of the highs to actually not be
present when you play the cassette and make a digital copy. the tracks may not
be balanced quite correctly because of an alignment problem and Dolby may not
be properly matched. I'm not recommending this nor am I recommending against
it. I'm saying that you may want to consider learning how to change the
alignment of your play head so that it matches the recording you are
digitizing. there are annoyances if you do this which I'll go into in another
message if you want to consider changing the head alignment but for now, I'm
presenting it as a possibility you may want to consider.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Snyder
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 5:34 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] improving the highs when converting cassettes
Hi List Members,
When converting cassettes some file come out great while other sides are a
bit muffled. The process for increasing the highs seems rather simple using
Sound Forge or GoldWave. I simply copy the muffled part out of the file,
run the fule through equalizer and noise reduction and then put the
corrected piece back into the original file. It seems more complicated in
Audacity and I can't hear much of a difference. Can some enlighten me as to
how to get better results? I am getting ready to buy GoldWave if that is
the best way, but if Audacity can do the trick easily, I can also have other
workers help with this task without breaking the budget. Thanks for any
help you can provide. I hope this does not require a multi-step process in
Audacity, and I hope that I can preview the result before making changes.
Tim
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