Longshot: Audio bleed on old VHS

[Bix]

I'm converting a tape to DVD that has audio from whatever it was taped over bleeding in and sometimes completely taking over the proper track. Is there ANY way to fix this or am I screwed? I'm guessing the latter but I figured I'd ask anyway.

Thanks!

[ozymango]

I'm guessing you're screwed but maybe there's hope, depending on the audio tracks on the VHS -- is this a hi-fi tape, or a linear-audio-only tape? If it's a hi-fi tape you may be able to recover the audio from either the hi-fi track, or the linear track, and perhaps one of them has non-garbled audio. Kind of a long shot, though. But worth checking out!

Also maybe the tracking on this deck is off just enough that -- assuming it's the linear audio tracks -- that maybe a different deck might not catch the "edge" of the previous audio track, and give you clean sound. Relatively speaking, that is -- linear audio tracks on VHS are nothing to write home about.

Anyway, I think it's definitely worth trying this tape on another deck. Maybe go down to your local video store and see if they'll let you try it out on a demo VCR?

[Bix]

Hmm.

I do have some other VCRs I can test it on, but I already tried all of the "Audio Monitor" settings on my JVC 9800.

[Marvingj]

Besweet can deal with that....

[Bix]

Any specific techniques?

[Soopafresh]

No software is going to help on this one. You need to try another deck and hope for the best.