Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote

why is it called azimuth and not elevation ? ...

Because it’s the angle to the tape. There is no elevation involved.

never understood that

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Thanks for confirming what I said. Its really amazing how good some tapes
can sound if you set things up correctly, as I say in my original reply
azimuth is critical, but if its only dictation quality and has been
recorded using dc bias or permanent magnet erase systems you are going to
have to remove a lot of bass noise.
Brian

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On Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:59:50 UTC+1, TimW wrote:
A half a dozen of old cassettes of speech need to be digitised for
archive purposes. I could maybe get the old hifi out of the cupboard and
the cassette deck might work. How do I then connect that to a PC? Could
use a windows or linux machine. Would that be better than a £20 usb
cassette player from amazon?:
Learn mo
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076PFJK..._IOhxDb00BE8TF
When I have an audio file I think I could remove a bit of hiss with
audacity or similar. Would that be 'job done'?
TW

Stay well away from the £20 player. Modern stuff like that is invariably
junk.

Line out from hifi goes to line in on pc. Microphone in may work, but
will need attentuation setting on the sound.

Align the cassette head for each tape. Easily done, not doing it often
results in much worse quality. If it sounds acceptable on the hifi you
can skip this step if you wish. Realign the head afterwards.

Record using audacity or similar. Postprocess it with the 1000 band noise
gate to eliminate hiss. Tweak the frequency response as desired. Export
to mp3. Modest bit rate mono is fine for speech - try samples to see.


NT