Professional Audio Tape Transfer

 

Restoring and Migrating Audio and Video Tapes

We transfer those old audio reel-to-reel tapes to CD or Hard Drive

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Since the late 40's, many millions of miles of audio tape has been recorded.

Most of that tape is still in relatively good condition, depending on how it was stored.
But the that tape will not last forever.

We take your valuable audio tape and restore it by transferring to a digital medium,
using vintage and completely restored professional audio recorders and modern Digidesign Pro Tools.
For audio restoration and noise reduction, we use Apple's Soundtrack Pro.

We use the highest quality professional equipment, fully restored, to process your tapes.
We use an Ampex 351 tube full-track, Ampex 440B-2 stereo two-track or full track,
Ampex MM-1100 2" 16 track, Ampex 440B-4 four track on 1/2",
Revox A-77 half-track stereo recorder and Otari MX-5050 1/4" 4-track and others.

Plus, Fostex 4-track/Stereo cassette, Ampex 8-track, Panasonic Microcassette and NAB broadcast Cart.

Before sending your tapes to a transfer company, ask to see pictures of their audio equipment. Some of mine are shown below.

Your tape is digitized into a Digidesign Pto Tools system and edited, equalized, noise reduced,
compressed and/or limited, depending on the material and your requests.
We then make a CD, DVD or other type of music or computer file for you.
We can digitize at 44.1 through 96k, 24 bits to WAVE, AIFF, AAC or MP3 files.

If your audio tape is exhibiting the Sticky-Shed Syndrome (SSS),
we can bake your tape to eliminate the problem before transferring.
(Many tapes made in the 1970-80s may exhibit this problem)
We can also remove mold, repair splices and add leader.

We specialize in the following formats:

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AUDIO

1/4" Full-Track or Half Track at 1-7/8, 3-3/4, 7.5, 15 ips and 30 ips.

1/2" Four-track at 15 and 7.5 ips.

2" 16 track at 15 and 30 ips on an Ampex MM-1100

2" 24 track at 15 and 30 ips on an Ampex MM-1200

dbx and Dolby Noise Reduction available

1/4" quarter track stereo or 4-track
NAB broadcast audio cart: mono or stereo
Audio Cassette stereo or 4-track
Ampex 8-track
Panasonic Microcassette
ADAT XT-20 Digital 8-track at 16 or 20 bits

If you don't see your format listed, email us. We are constantly adding new machines.

And who would actually do the transfer?

C. Park Seward, with 35 years experience in media transfers.

park@videopark.com

818-535-2747

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Audio compression/translation services

mp3, AAC, WAVE, AIFF, SDII to/from hard disk or optical disk

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VIDEO

Digital Betacam DVW-A500
1" Type "C" with Ampex VPR-3 and Zeus TBC
2" Quadruplex with Ampex 1200B with Merlin Digital TBC updates
D-2 with Sony DVR-28
Betacam and Betacam SP with Sony BVW-60
3/4" U-Matic with Sony BVU-950
Standard, Hi-8 and Digital 8 video
mini DV
DVCAM
micro MV
Panasonic D-3
Betamax I, II, III
VHS
DVD

We can transfer uncompressed 10 bit to hard drive or
video compression services are available to ProRes, MPEG-2, DV, Quicktime or H.264
NTSC to/from PAL

Email for further info and pricing

park@videopark.com

Digidesign's Pro Tools audio editing and mixing software

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