Norfolk UK: looking for legal above board customer recommended service to transfer cassette / audio tapes to CD / DVD. Lots of people claim to do this, is there anyone who does so as a skill swap / bartering service as I can’t afford much. There are stereos that will do this BUT these tapes are old and fragile (rarities) and may wreck a person’s stereo. Can’t afford to hire a studio hence skill swap would be useful. Can ‘hiss / damaged’ sound on the worst of them be minimised?

I once saw a full-page ad in Parade Magazine for a device that could do this, but I can't remember what it was called.

(EDIT: Upon further investigation, it seems there is a different magazine with the same name in the UK. I was talking about this one, which is distributed inside Sunday newspapers.)

This post was last modified: 10-19-2012 05:17 PM by Yuji.

If you can record from the tapes to your computer (i'll provide instructions) and send by email with your postal address and funding to cover the cost of the CD-R and P&P i'd happily do this for a single album.

For hiss, during silent moments, that's trivial to remove - recovering actual damage to the sound is more in-depth detailed work and results are not guaranteed, so if you want someone to do that it'd be best to find an expert

Thanks Yuji, there are stereo systems that will do this, very expensive and also I don,t want to wreck anyones stereo(don,t know anyone who has a systemlike this anyhow.Tapes are very fragile I think I may need a lead/connector from my ancient AIWA walkman(tape machine) but dint know where to find one(reliable, that works)that links to speakers and a graphic equaliser(Google any terms you have,nt heaRD. THANKS EPHEMEROL9