[Hidden-tech] How to clean up a cassette tape for transcribers?

[sgelfan at rcn.com]

Hi

I have three very noisy, hard to understand cassette tapes of 
meetings which I need to have transcribed.

I was able to do a lot adjusting the EQ, but it was still very 
very difficult to understand. EQ helps, but I really need more 
sophisticated equipment with better filtering.

The two main problems were that it was done simply using the 
built-in mike, so you hear the sounds of the tape machine 
itself, and that the signal was very low.  

So far, putting it into digital format has not helped, but I 
am not up to date on the latest recording technologies, so I 
am hoping that there is an easy fix out there that I just 
don't know about.

I am hoping someone on this list either has the equipment or 
has other suggestions for cleaning up those tapes, and/or 
does transcriptions off of cassette tapes


thanks, Stephanie
   sgelfan at rcn.com