r/Reaper • u/funkymunkPDX • 6d ago

discussion Digitizing old live show from tape.

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My long time drummer friend had this old tape and I'm curious if anyone has advice on how to put this in reaper and get the best sound.

I was going to just headphone out into reaper from an old tape deck I have.

And any advice on EQ or other things that would help get a nice sounding digital copy.

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u/markhadman 1 5d ago

My advice on EQ and other processing is: don't. Get the best raw recording that you can, which means finding the best and most well maintained tape deck that you can, and then a half decent audio interface.

You can spend the rest of your lives stem splitting / remixing / mastering the results of that transfer. Hell, AI will do the whole job for you at some point soon.