I really appreciate all the insightful suggestions made recently. I will definitely lower the playback volume on the machine to avoid clipping. I am going to try Tim’s various suggestions and am in agreement that noise reduction software, when overused, can have dreadful results. However, it sure saved our butts removing scratches and surface noise from scores of This I Believe records for the This I Believe series I produced awhile back. But for broadband noise from poorly recorded interviews it seems to produce limited results. 

Thanks again. 
Dan

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