Anyone had any experiences with ripping and compressing noisy source tracks? (Noisy in the audio domain).

I'm currently toying with compressing at high bit rates/high quality.

Any help/anecdotes welcome; however, please don't go on about cleaning up the tracks/audio processing/etc., as in this case it's not possible; what I am looking for is advice on this tolerating the noise. Does it affect the compression?

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015