audio sounds too low, and a little slow

[eengah]

I've been converting my old audio cassette tapes to MP3 using Audacity, and so far, everything has gone really well.

However-- one of my tapes has kind of a very slightly too-low (and maybe also a very slightly too-slow--I can't quite tell) sound to it, almost as if the actual tape was stretched out just a tiny bit. Is there any way I can fix the audio now that I have it on my computer as an Audacity project so that it doesn't sound like this?

Thanks!

[steve]

If the tape is stretched, then it is unlikely that it is even and the pitch (and speed) will be going up and down erratically - this is difficult to correct. However, from your description it sounds like maybe the tape was recorded on a machine that was running a little fast, in which case you just need to slow the speed of the whole thing down a little. You can do this easily in Audacity 1.3.x with the "Change Speed" effect.