Any Benifit Using Equaliser ....

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Hi,

I have Sony STR-DE915 Reciever. What I want to know that Is it any benifit to use Equaliser with my cassette deck and play Old song and record back. on the cassette.

Basically I am trying to Remove Tape hisses and some exogenous sounds (probaly scrach) and restore song as much I can. After that I would like to create cd and keep the Old collection. some of the songs are not avalable. any help and advice will be highly appreciated.. Thanks
A. Khalak
 
I think the generation loss of dubbing to tape again would cancel out any benefit from your equalizer. If you have a computer I would suggest recording directly to it and then use a program such as, Goldwave, which will automatically clean-up, and "de-click" the recording for you.

LD
 
Hi Lord,
thanks for the information.. I was planning like

1. Old song cassette.. using Equalizer.. .. through Receiver.. Taping on Video tape(audio) and from that copy taking on computer and using program like Goldwave, cool edit ( any of those program) and then making CD.. some of these songs taped from old 72 rpm records and even before the stereo techniq.. came in..
thanks again..
A.K.
 
Lord D is right. There is no benefit to going through another tape generation before going to .wav format. Even if you had a really super duper tape deck (much better than VHS HiFi) the sound is still coming from that old tape. Do what you can to get the best performance out of the old tape playback (better deck, clean heads, correct bias/eq Dolby settings etc.). It you're really jonesing to play with that equalizer, put it between the cassette deck and the computer and listen to the result versus without it.
 
Hi drstawl,

thanks very much for advice.. I rally appreciate.. Will do that way. As you know am newbee.. Just learning.. speacialy old hobby collecting Old Indian Songs..

Thanks again
A.K.
 
Here's another tip. If you know you'll be dealing with a mono sound source as in those 78s you mentioned, keep the file in mono all the way in to the computer to get the sound most true to the original. A small side effect will be that everything will work faster, and you'll save some HD space.
 
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