Today’s “On This Day in History” is a little late. This tape sounded SO bad that I did a few things to it to make it sound somewhat listenable. I picked the tape for its historical significance, since the SF art institute seemed to be the epicenter of the SF punk movement in the 1970s…that’s what I gathered from reading “Gimme Something More” and the Jimmy Wilsey biography. Missed it by about 10 years.
Anyway, the right channel of this tape had guitar and vocals. The vocals in that channel were completely distorted. The left channel had a better vocal along with drums. I popped the one (bad) channel into izotope and dropped the vocals out of it completely, and then put it back into sound forge, then used the left and right levels to give a decent mix. From there, I panned/blended the 2 channels together.
So what I am saying is I did one hell of a lot of work to make it sound like this, believe it or not. It was WAY worse.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Right channel -inf. vocals.
Channel mix then pan with Sony Sound Forge 10