Recovering old recording

[Leva]

Hi All,
I'm putting together a CD with me singing in 1980s and now. I have two questions:

1. How do I recover the old recordings, they have tons of hiss
2. How would I make it sound as a complete CD with minimum difference between the old and new songs.

P.S. all the songs are just me and the acoustic guitar.

Thanks

 

[Angermeyer]

Are your old recording on vinyl? If so you will need the turntable obviously, somthing to amplify the signal and software to record and reduce hiss and such. Give us some more info.

-Angermeyer

 

[Leva]

more info

It is on a tape.

I have a Roland Studio Pack and Logic and Cubase 5.0

I tried sending it through the Roland but the hiss is just very loud.

I don't know much to begin with and whatever I was doing is not working

 

[esactun]

Do you have a sound editor with sampling noise reduction? I've heard that it works rather well. Cool Edit should have it (possibly Sound Forge also). Ask around in the Cool Edit forum. I have not used it myself, but the folks who like it include some pro engineers.

 

[TexRoadkill]

You wont be able to remove the hiss until it is in the computer. Wavelab is probably best but expensive. CoolEditPro has some usefull noise reduction.

FYI- You will not get the casette songs to sound as clean as your newer digital stuff. No way, no how. But you can make them sound a little better.

If it's just guitar and vocals why not redo them with the new gear?