4 Track Cassettes (Portastudio Cassettes) £40.00 with a direct transfer of recorded levels. Tracks mixed for £10.00 each.

4 track 1/4" inch tapes £30.00 per studio hour (material transferred mixed as is, please ask for remixing quote if required)

Mono/Stereo 1/4" tapes £30.00 per studio hour. (using REVOX high quality open reel to reel machine)

If deemed necessary or specifically requested the above private rates include dehiss/decrackle.

Professional restoration/transfer services are charged at £30.00 per hour (no vat to add).

For custom jobs or many items please call for a competitive estimate. I will use Special Delivery to send the transfers and original material back this costs between £5.90 and £18.00

The following types of restoration can be provisioned:

Dehiss
Denoise
Dehum
Decrackle
Declicking
Depopping
Audio filtering (of specific frequency bands)
Specific extraneous noise removal
Improved speech intelligability
Clarification of virtually any audio recordings
Pitch and playback speed manipulation to enhance clarity

Most audio can be transferred and improved, this could be :

Hissy tapes
Poor recordings
Critical evidence
Dictaphone recordings
Mobile phone recordings
Radio transmissions
Telephone conversations
Problematic field / location / production recordings
Audio from video
Surveillance recordings
Radio interviews or production sound.
Crackling old vinyl recodings

Cassette to cd transfer

Using 3 advanced restoration software types including Izotope RX, most problems can be cleaned up, greatly improving and revitalizing recordings.Precious recordings can be enjoyed and preserved on CD-R reducing wear and tear on the original source recordings.Transfers of audio from most domestic formats onto a digital medium or digital file format such as cassette to cd.

Equipment: 

SONY TC-KE500S 3 head audiophile single cassette player (Cassette to cd)
Pro-ject Debut turntable with Ortofon OM S stylus Audiophile grade equipment with RIAA preamplifier.
24bit / 96kHz capable analogue to digital conversion with AKM (TM) A/D convertors
Taiyo Yuden / Verbatim grade A recordable CD-R media.
Editing and PQ encoding in SADiE high end Audio workstation

All material sent to SafeandSound / Barry Gardner for transfer to other formats must be original material owned by the customer.

Copyright and disclaimer :

SafeandSound will make a copy of the original recording for the purposes of private use under the 'fair use' provisions of copyright law. These copies are strictly for personal listening by the recording owner and must not be redistributed or duplicated in any way and destroyed if the original is sold/destroyed. By using these services, the user takes full responsibility for all copyright issues.

I strongly recommend sending precious recordings by Royal Mail Special Delivery (check for pricing at you local post office or online at Royal Mail). The sender is soley responsible for delivery and packing the recorded material with sufficient packing materials for safe delivery. Whilst every attempt is made to ensure safe return delivery (by Special Delivery) and professional care is taken with all materials in my posession, you use this service with the provisor that ultimately the sender assumes responsibility for the loss of any materials.

Accepted payment forms:

Cash, Cheque or PayPal, 50pct deposit must be paid upon commencement of work and 50pct before delivery of mastered audio, smaller jobs require full payment by cheque sent with materials to be transferred.

Contact : Barry on 0(zero)7810 271371

Cassette to cd transfers.