[Okie I tried the newsgroups, maybe someone here can assist]



I will try and make this as simplistic as possible.


I have a Cassette tape of a DJ MIX a friend of mine did back in 1987.
Through time the cassette has lost sound quality. The worst part is during
the music the left channel might drop off to LOW sound, or distorted lows.
Sometimes the Right Channel will do the same thing. I at first had the
notion to copy data off one channel and make a MONO STEREO file, but as I
said they both have drop offs. Is there a WAY (PC software wise) to get back
the sound, or fake it (I.E. - When left drops off insert right channels
sound), or does anyone have some ideas on a method that might help me out in
this scenerio (I.E - Detailed .wav editing solution, different way of
recording from cassette to digital). I am an Amateur somewhat so any feed
back with laments terms would be helpful.


Thanks in Advance !

Difficult job. Switching to mono during the altered parts can help, but this is a very long job. Say one minute per drop out, the time to find it, to select it, apply the mono conversion, and listen to the result. If one channel is altered during a long time, this can be done. If the drop outs are constantly "pumping" the sound, it's an endless job to correct them one by one.

Why not copying and pasting segment(s)from one channel to another, using Cool Edit?
Ex: Right channel good - Left Bad...
Copy the desired length and paste at the exact same point on the bad channel.
Can achieve very good results if both channels are similar.
Hope it helps.

PS: Or why not convert the whole thing to mono? Mono will not degrade the sound, but only mix Left & Right and masks the flaws.
If you want Cool Edit can also, create a stereo file again.(but with 2 identical channels).
CoolEdit has a non-destructive mode, so you can always listen the results BEFORE saving to the disk.

I'm, sending you a doc, wich contains a very unsual method of converting LPs, using Cool Edit and some other apps. It was posted seveal months ago by a guy wich achieve great results from old material. I hope something can help you.

Perhaps after some filtering to clean up hiss etc, you could consider trying a dynamics compressor on the whole mix? That should push the quiet bits to be a bit louder. Do it on the two seperate channels then replaygain them together. That might work but I also understand that it could be incredibly flawed.

I could be wrong by a long way but I think the BeSweet tool is capable of this.

Anyone else got more insight?

Ruairi

Audio Helpers!


Thanks, so much and especially to LIF who sent me a nice email with some extra tips. I am going to try all the advice you gave me and see what results I come up with. THANK YOU guys!


Trick

yup...


your welcome dude...
glad to be at some assistance..