hey if you want to collab or trade notes, my email is in my profile. there was java software that did FANTASTIC work cleaning up crappy transfers of audio, like, specifically, it was perfect for "AM Quality Monaural Audio".

  Observe, original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiRcOVDAryM
  my edit (took about an hour, if memory serves, to set up. forgot render time...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xazubVJ0jz4

Audio.Restoration.DeNoise.DeNoiseLF.2.8.3_WiN.OSX is a more recent version i think

p.s. are you a "dude named Ben"?