Is there anything in RX that would help remove print through from tape recordings?

Question

One of the things on my back log is digitizing a large pile of old cassette tape archives. I am willing to bet that there has been some print through, and since cassettes are recorded in both directions at least half of it will be in the less acceptable pre-echo form.

I've done a quick search, but so far I haven't seen any discussion of removing even the post-echo form. (If I could do that, I could probably reverse the pre echoed audio, remove the now post-echo, and reverse it again...)

Is there anything in RX that would help me do this? If not, does anyone know of other tools which might do the job? (Stem separator, perhaps?)

PoorFellow · Answer

Great link by Uwe , I see that the page does not contain a link to index of content so here that is : Audio Tape Digitisation Workflow

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Uwe303 · Answer

Hello,

Maybe RX de-bleed can help and additionally I found this:

https://www.musiikkiarkisto.fi/audio/audio14.html#:~:text=To%20minimize%20the%20print%2Dthrough,suffer%20carrier%20degradation%20during%20spooling.

So prepare the tape as good as you can and research that first, things like baking the tape if it's sticky and stuff like that. Then after you recorded it into the computer you can try de-bleed. The big problem is then of course that the distance (delay) varies over time, would be definitely an interesting experiment to get this to work, and give de bleed the correct input to learn perfectly aligned.