Improve the sound quality of your oldest songs
Tape Restore Live is an amazing, free Windows software, belonging to the category Desktop customization software with subcategory Plug-ins (more specifically Audio).
More about Tape Restore Live
Tape Restore Live is a not that heavy software that doesn’t need as much free space than the average program in the section Desktop customization software. It’s a program frequently downloaded in some countries such as United States, Morocco, and Egypt.
Since we added this program to our catalog in 2007, it has managed to reach 16,845 installations, and last week it achieved 17 downloads.
The current version of the program is 1.0 and it has been updated on 2/1/2007. It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 95 and prior versions, and you can get it in English.
Tape Restore Live! is a free Winamp plugin that improves the sound of cassette tapes.
Some unique features of Tape Restore Live! are:
Software Dolby B remover
This is an advantage over using a hardware filter because the tape bias settings can be changed before the filter is used, which is especially useful if the sound of tapes has become dull because of tape wear and age. Also, any noise from the sound card is deminished by the Dolby B decoder. Calibration tones are provided to calibrate the software Dolby B remover against the encoder in the cassette recorder.
AZIMUTH correction
If the tape head is not set exactly identical to the setting when the tape was recorded, playing it back in mono or through a surround system will result in very ugly artifacts. The AZIMUTH correction calculates the correct tape head setting on the fly, and corrects for it, even if the tape head is moving during playback (which occurs on some tape decks).
FM Stereo hiss removal
Recordings from stereo FM radio stations often contain FM stereo hiss. This filter can remove most of the stereo hiss without damaging the real sound. (This filter can also be used for FM stereo recordings that were not recorded to tape.)
