AskMeCha: RadioRadio. →[More:]Were any of you folks listening to the radio in Richmond, Virginia in 1979, 1980? No? Well, anyway, there was this show I liked on WRFK, and I made tapes of it by the very sophisticated method of holding the tape recorder's microphone up to the radio speaker. (Yes, you're impressed, I know.)

So, these tapes have survived moving across the country and back again and a couple of marriages and whatall, and they're amazingly still intact, and, even more amazingly, I have figured out how to zap them into my computer (yes, go ahead, be impressed again). Thing is, they all have this buzz sound in the background, plus God-knows-what-else, on account of Teenager Janet not being very good at holding a mike steady for 15 solid minutes, plus which Sears Roebuck tape recorders and 1970s clock radios not really being known for massive audio chops. So what I guess I need now is some recommendations for how to get rid of the background hum and just generally improve the audio quality. In a VERY EASY way, because I think we may very well have hit the limit of my audio savvy. So does something exist that I can just run the mp3s through and have them come out sounding way mo' better, or is it harder than that? Whaddya think?