I just found in the trash ...at work....that have been recorded on and the tabs punched out, but they are in super shape cosmetically with classical music recorded on them, all perfectly labeled and organized by years,albums,volumes...still with their cases and j-cards in a huge cassette case.....can these be recorded over and reused and produce good,clean sound again????

yes sure you can preferably if you have a bulk eraser would be the quickest way to do so but not in its entirety would it erase ...

but the above would be a good start,,,
the next best way is to record the tape on a deck with the levels turned off to make it totally blank

and of course when you record somthing new it automatically records over what ever whas on there first .... but its better to have a nearly erased cassette as opposed to a a tapes with something on it as the previous sound might still Leak through

sometime's all of the previous sounds do not get totally recorded over and or erased ...

bulk erase
then tape deck erase
then record new ... sounds :-)
James

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Originally posted by Matrixambience:
I just found in the trash ...at work....that have been recorded on and the tabs punched out, but they are in super shape cosmetically with classical music recorded on them, all perfectly labeled and organized by years,albums,volumes...still with their cases and j-cards in a huge cassette case.....can these be recorded over and reused and produce good,clean sound again????

Thanks James...don't have a bulk erase type thing, but will try just tape deck erase on one or two cassettes, then try re-recording to one...

I would just tape over the old music one tape
at a time

But I first would find out what nice classical
music is on there!, you never know!!