[Srewxardsasv]

It's been sitting untouched in a box for 21 years.

[GuitarLoverBe]

so, what, it was levitating inside a box?! That's freakin' amazin'

[newshep]

I still have a bunch of magnetic media from the 70s and 80s. I know this isn't like lost Hendrix tapes, but you should be careful.

That tape will be shedding oxide like crazy with every use, losing sound quality rapidly. So don't play it too much. You should transfer it to digital ASAP, preferably WAV or some other uncompressed format at a decent sample rate (44.1k is plenty for voice). Once that's done, you can try to restore the audio a bit in the digital domain.

For now, put it in a cool, dry space.

Very cool, btw.

[AncewwewBus]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
I'd convert that to digital ASAP before the magnetic tape gets brittle. Good find by the way. I'm going to do this. I'll likely have to buy a new digital cassette player with a digital out but that's a small price to pay for something like this.

[wsbizwsa]

Walgreens will do it.

[Caluabdum]

20 bucks vs 100 bucks?

yep, im being irrational.

[Ilaubuas]

oh give me a goddamn break.

go to CVS then. point is there is a cheaper alternative then buying a hella expensive machine when you can do it somewhere for under 50 bucks.

get a grip on reality for a minute please.

[Pete789]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
I'd convert that to digital ASAP before the magnetic tape gets brittle. Good find by the way. That's good advice for me, too. I have some cassettes of my old campus radio show which was ~25 years ago -- including the announcement of the birth of my best friends twins.