Tips on converting old mix tapes to MP3...

[AlexHall74]

Hey everyone,

I just cleaned my garage and found a bunch of old mix tapes that I made when I was in college.

Amazingly enough they still play!

For the most part the sound quality is good because I made them from CD-> Tape transfers on TDK 60s but there is the typical tape background hiss that one hears after being used to CD quality for so long.

I would love to convert these to MP3 format so that I can hang on to them as they are my "audio heirlooms."

I plan to play them from my boom box (my only remaining tape player) and feed the signal into my M-Audio 2496 to convert to digital.

I do have a few quick questions:

(1) Should I just open up a track in Cubase and let it rip?

(2) What type of VST plugin(s) can I use to clean up the signal a little bit?

I have scoured KVR's free VST forum and grabbed VSTs of every type and color but must confess that outside of reverbs, delays, and a few compressors, I have not experimented with many of them.

Thank you for any input that you can offer to help me preserve my old tunes.

Regards,

-Alex