Hey,
I bought a tape deck yesterday for the purpose of importing some cassettes that I have left over from the 90's into computerland. I was going to use my Lexicon Omega for the interface and rip them into Audacity, but I'm not looking forward to it.
I was wondering if there was something out there that would make importing tapes and slicing them into files more fun, easier and/or quicker. The main thing that's going to be a drag in audacity is cleaning them up if they need a little eq, hiss reduction, whatever. Audacity's plugins are weird and hard to audition. But also, the exporting the tunes as individual wav's and mp3's is going to be slow going too. What would you use, and why? I'm on PC. I'd say my top budget is $1-200 for just the software.
Soon, I'm going to want to do this with my old 1/4" 8-track masters, so, something that could accommodate more than just 2 tracks would be interesting. For that project I'm going to need an 8-channel input interface, so for that I'd pay more money for hardware/software if it could do both jobs, obviously. How much does it cost these days to get 8 channels of Protools going? I'm willing (hoping?) to buy used hardware.
Thanks,
ck
Software for Digitizing Cassettes?
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I've been doing this in Reaper and the workflow is good.
I make a split for each song and name the new "item" with the song name.
When I render I choose "selected media items" option (with all songs selected). It has autonaming wildcards. I use " $regionnumber $region " Without defining any regions, it considers each song a region and renders/exports it with name I gave it, and automatically adds the correct sequential number to it. I export to a folder named for the album and set it to render as mp3. Done!
Plugins, level adjustments, etc. No problem. Its a DAW.
I make a split for each song and name the new "item" with the song name.
When I render I choose "selected media items" option (with all songs selected). It has autonaming wildcards. I use " $regionnumber $region " Without defining any regions, it considers each song a region and renders/exports it with name I gave it, and automatically adds the correct sequential number to it. I export to a folder named for the album and set it to render as mp3. Done!
Plugins, level adjustments, etc. No problem. Its a DAW.
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Reaper also has the advantage that I've used it before. Although it's been a few years.
Do you just use the built in plugins?
What are good plugins for cleaning up decades old cassette recordings?
I usually get by with just EQ, but I wouldn't mind sprinkling a little pixie dust on these if it's easy and not a zillion dollars.
Is Reaper still $50?
Do you just use the built in plugins?
What are good plugins for cleaning up decades old cassette recordings?
I usually get by with just EQ, but I wouldn't mind sprinkling a little pixie dust on these if it's easy and not a zillion dollars.
Is Reaper still $50?
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Reaper is $60 now. v5 release is getting close.
The included plugs give generally good results, and I read that Reafir has a noise reduction mode, but I think others such as Izotope RX, Acon http://acondigital.com/products/restoration-suite/
or Sound Forge may give better results. Other than that, sometimes I use a typical eq or Left/Right level control utility.
The included plugs give generally good results, and I read that Reafir has a noise reduction mode, but I think others such as Izotope RX, Acon http://acondigital.com/products/restoration-suite/
or Sound Forge may give better results. Other than that, sometimes I use a typical eq or Left/Right level control utility.
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