AUDIO RESTORATION AND MASTERING
COMPLETE AUDIO RESTORATION & RE-MASTERING OF RECORDS AND TAPES
BEST POSSIBLE QUALITY OF RESTORATION & RE-MASTERING ANALOG AUDIO TO DIGITAL.
BEST QUALITY. DIGITAL AUDIO RESTORATION & MASTERING OF RECORDS OR TAPES & MASTERED IN REAL-TIME TO CD: AUDIO CASSETTE, MINI AUDIO CASSETTE, RECORD ALBUMS LPs, 45s, 78s, 8 TRACK TAPES & 1/4" REEL TO REEL AUDIO TAPE TO WAV OR WMA FILES. USING PROFESSIONAL HI-END AUDIO EQUIPMENT: RECORDS ARE CLEANED & RESTORED, BOTH RECORDS AND TAPES ARE AUDIO ENHANCED BY REMOVING CLICKS, POPS AND CRACKLES, BOOST LOW AUDIO, TRACKS ARE SEPARATED AND NUMBERED OR TITLED: INCLUDES MASTER QUALITY AUDIO CD, PRINTING DIRECT ON DISC & CD CASE.
1/4" AUDIO CASSETTES, MINI-AUDIO CASSETTES, 8 TRACK TAPES AND RECORDS 33 LP, 45s, 78s TO AUDIO CD IN WAV FILES
Length Price 30 minute: Digital audio restoration and mastering $30.00 45 minute: Digital audio restoration and mastering $45.00 60 minute: Digital audio restoration and mastering $50.00 90 minute: (Requires 2 CDs) Digital audio restoration and mastering $80.00 120 minute: (Requires 2 CDs) Digital audio restoration and mastering $90.00 WAV files can be played on any computer and compatible CD players. You can request a music CD-R for playback in compatible car & stereo CD players at additional cost.
Minimum charge $30.00 includes CD, case & direct printing on disc.
1/4" REEL TO REEL AUDIO TAPES TO AUDIO CD IN WAV FILES
Length/Spool Diameter 15 ips
(38 cm)7.5 ips
(19 cm)3.75 ips
(9.5 cm)1.78 ips
(4.9 cm)Price 100 ft, 3" Up to 30 minutes 5 min 10 min 16 min 30 min $50.00 600 ft 5" Up to 60 minutes 8 min 16 min 32 min 60 min $60.00 1200 ft 7" Up to 90 minutes 16 min 32 min 64 min 90 min $90.00 WAV files can be played on any computer and compatible CD players. You can request a music CD-R for playback in compatible car & stereo CD players at additional cost.
Minimum charge $50.00 includes CD, case & direct printing on disc. Minimum charge applies if you want your reel to reel tapes on separate CDs.
OPTIONS:
CD-R MUSIC FOR AUDIO RECORDING 700MB/80 MINUTE DISC - PROFESSIONAL MASTERING DIGITAL AUDIO CD: includes plastic case and insert.
CD-R GOLD 650MB/74 MINUTE DISC - 24 KARAT GOLD PROFESSIONAL 300 YEAR ARCHIVAL MASTERING CD: includes plastic case and insert.
DVD-R GOLD 4.7GB DISK - Special Request: 24 KARAT GOLD PROFESSIONAL 100 YEAR ARCHIVAL MASTERING DVD: includes full plastic case.
DIGITAL AUDIO EDITING FROM ALL FORMATS, MULTIPLE TAPES OR RECORDS TO ONE CD: More than one audio tape or (audio clip) copied to same CD. Selecting individual tracks and digital audio enhance from damaged or very poor quality tapes or records which require additional audio restoration or repairs.
FILE CONVERSION: Converting audio files to-from, WAV-WMA-MP3 & others.
FILE NAMES: Create individual personal file names for each track rather than numbers.
REPAIRS: We can repair audio tapes, CDs or DVDs and clean, lubricate records.
AUDIO INFORMATION
We use commercial quality turntables, cassette decks, reel to reel decks, CD burners and digital audio mixers and master to Professional Quality CD-Rs (not the cheap ones) with options to use mastering audio CDs or gold CDs. We provide the option of analog audio (all formats) re-mastered and recorded in real-time with NO compression to WAV files or conversion of records to MP3 files for MP3 compatible players. MP3 files are highly compressed and do not provide the best possible audio quality but the cost is less expensive than complete digital audio restoration.
1/4" REEL TO REEL TO AUDIO CD
1/4" reel to reel audio tape
The first reel to reel tape recorders were introduced in Canada and USA in the late forties.
Tracks - Originally machines and tapes were full track, recording across the full width of the tape.
Then half track allowing two separate mono recordings on each side of a tape, or one single stereo recording.
Most open reel recordings are on 1/4" tape and recorded in one of the following forms -
Speed - 15, 7.5, 3.75, 1.78 IPS (inches per second)
Reel size - 7" (1200ft), 5" (600ft) or 3".
For your guidance, below are the approximate running times (one pass) of the various reel sizes.
Length Spool (Reel) Diameter 15 ips
(38 cm)7.5 ips
(19 cm)3.75 ips
(9.5 cm)1.78 ips
(4.9 cm)100 ft 3" ONE SIDE 5 min 10 min 16 min 30 min 600 ft 5" ONE SIDE 8 min 16 min 32 min 60 min 1200 ft 7" ONE SIDE 16 min 32 min 64 min 90 min The total cost depends on the length of the tapes and how many CD's we make.
Unless you have logged the tape and know the duration, it is hard to predict how long each tape is. Knowing the size of the reel does not mean too much but we can base a quote by time. (see above) It depends on how thick the tape is (which determines the length of the tape), the speed at which it was recorded, the number of tracks, if the tape was recorded on both sides, etc.
Armed with this knowledge, you can order based on an "estimate" of 1 CD per tape. However, it could be 2 CD's per tape (even more, if the tape was recorded at very slow speed).
We will not know how may CD's will result until we actually finish recording each tape.
If, after we begin processing, we find out that the tape is blank or can not be recorded, we will not make a CD, but charge only return shipping of the material to the customer.
AUDIO CASSETTES
Audio Cassettes come in various lengths. Unless you have logged the tape and know the duration, it is hard to predict how long each tape is. Some tapes are marked 20 minutes, 30 minutes and so on but the tapes may not be full if they were home recorded. Most store bought tapes will have the length marked on them which will make it easier to predict how many tapes will fit on each 80 minutes CD. It is hard to give an exact quote unless you know the length of each tape you want transferred.
8 TRACK AUDIO TAPE CARTRIDGE
Most store bought 8 track tapes will have the length marked on them which will make it easier to predict how many tapes will fit on each 80 minute CD. The average 8 track is the same as an LP length, between 40 to 45 minutes in length.
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