Stories
There is something quietly magical about sliding a worn cassette into a deck and hearing the faint squeak of the leader tape before the first song kicks in.…
Burning a finished mix to a compact disc used to be a rite of passage for home studio hobbyists in Australia. Whether you're putting together a demo for a mate…
When you inherit a box of cassette mixtapes from a relative in Adelaide or pick up a bundle of second-hand LPs from a trash-and-treasure market in Brisbane,…
Cassettes once lived in every Australian household, slipped into car stereos on long drives down the Hume Highway, swapped at school in Melbourne and Brisbane,…
Anyone who has tried to archive a cherished record knows how quickly a small tracking error turns into a permanent flaw in the digital file. The stylus…
Around Australia, vinyl has worked its way back into living rooms in suburbs from Newtown to Fitzroy, and plenty of people who stacked milk crates full of…
Vinyl crackle, loud pops and cassette dropouts can distract from an otherwise enjoyable transfer. Once the music has been recorded as a WAV file, software can…
Transferring vinyl to a CD is a careful listening job as much as a technical one. The aim is to make a clean digital copy that preserves the character of the…
Turning an LP into a CD is a satisfying way to preserve records that may be scratched, difficult to replace or simply too valuable for regular handling. The…
A 33 RPM LP can be transferred to an audio CD with ordinary hi-fi equipment, a computer and a little patience. The process involves playing the record through…
