Hi Stephanie I recently converted an old record my grandfather made during WWII to send to my grandmother that was a horribly scratchy recording of him speaking. (I guess they used to send audio-letters this way.) Anyhow, I was able to convert it to an audio file and then bring it in to Audacity and clean it up quite well. Audacity is free software (I am on a Mac, not sure if it runs on PCs) and is very easy to use. You can isolate (highlight) sections of the recording that you want to clean up or isolate sounds on the recording which you want to elimInate throughout the recording. It really is quite easy to learn at a glance, so don't be intimidated. I cleaned up my file in very little time. If you get stuck, I have a family member that does transcription, though there are probably more affordable options available. However, like I said, if you get stuck, she is amazingly thorough and precise. Good luck! Sarah On 8/22/11 4:16 PM, sgelfan at rcn.com wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page:http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -- Sarah Meikle Graphic& Web Design Creative Business& Technology Consultant sarahmeikle.comsarah at sarahmeikle.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sarah.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 280 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20110831/c566c97b/attachment-0001.vcf