Creating audio tapes....

Does anyone here have experience in creating audio tapes? (I'm talking about info-product style audio tapes.... Essentially just someone talking, with maybe some introductory music at the very beginning.)

If so - did you do it in a studio, or just at home? (I actually have pre-production studio experience, from my days - when I was a student - at a student radio station, then at a public radio station.... So, if I want to record something, my "instinct" is to hire a pre-production studio, but I don't know if it's really necessary. Though my experience is with old tape-based equipment, rather than the digital equipment they use nowadays....)

Thanks for your feedback.... :)

- Dien