The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88918   Message #1685081
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
04-Mar-06 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: CDs from old cassettes
Subject: RE: CDs from old cassettes
Hey, Stilly:

I', amazed that I could get as good a sound as I did. The two tracks done with Luke Faust come from a 40 year old Radio Shack Normal Bias cassette which was in turn a copy from a reel to reel tape. Even with the songs that were recorded at a great distance from the microphones in a large auditorium, you can birng the sound in and amplify it to sound far better than the original.

I am just doing a final mix on a Gospel Messengers CD and played it for the guys and some friends who were here for practice this morning. One of my friends is a computer genius, and he tried to use Cakewalk and gave up on it, as I did. He was in charge of the music ministry in this church for many years so he brings a deep knowledge of both the music and computers. I showed him quicly how
Easy Media Creator works and he was sold. The quality of sound on the Messengers CD is much better than what I was able to get on the first CD (the one I sent you.) Most of it came from cassettes, and some of the CD recordings were even harder because they were recorded so far from the stage and at such a low volume. The CD is very consistent in sound, despite the variety of sources.

Jerry