The DBX 117 has been a secret weapon of mine for some time. This device is capable of working magic with the cassette tape medium (along with dare I say the BBE Sonic Maximizer). In Bob Katz book Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science there is a brief section that describes the process of upward expansion and describes the DBX 117 as the very first commercially available unit. Katz describes the process basically as "uncompression". I almost all ways run a cassette tape mixdown through this and it sounds better. If you can find one for cheap they are quite interesting and useful. They do run at -10db so make sure you are properly matching your input/output signals.
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