Clean up 20 year old Audio tapes

I have some 27 year old audio tapes recordings that I would like to put onto to CD and give them as a fathers day gift. I would love any recommendations on how to put them on my computer, and then how to clean up the quality- you can here the voice, but through the years it seems to have been muffled it up some. Any helped would be appreciated, they are family heirlooms that would be a special treat for my father. PLEASE HELP

For recording see if you can find a tape player that has a headphone out, like a walkman or a system, then plug a male to male 1/8 from the device into the mic input on your mac. Then if you don't know the recording process, go to preferences, audio midi, make sure audio input is built in line input, and the output is normal. then just press record on garage band and play it on the device. as for it being muffled, try blowing gently on the tape to see if it has accumulated anything weird over the years, but if you can't, garage band has a couple of effects that might help. So you have your real instrument track, open the info panel on the left, click on "podcasting" there's a bunch of presets that might clear the voice up a little. if that doesn't work or isn't enough, click the triangle next to details, then click the little pen icon for the equalizer, then you can cut the low a little, cut the mid and put the mid frequency fairly low, and you can also boost the high, and that will make it a little clearer.
Hope that helps
Jamie

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