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SafeandSound offers audio restoration and transfer services
at competitive rates, cleaning up tapes, vinyl
and valuable recordings :
New lower pricing for 2009 !
There are 2 rates:
For private/personal
collections, tapes , vinyl etc. the following rates apply, please note there are a few methods for transfering vinyl, some
much better than others, I use only professional equipment and techniques (i.e. no USB turntables which give lower quality
results) This is archival and preservation quality transfer.(using 24 bit AKM A/D audiophile quality converters)
Cassette
tapes, one off's, any length £22.00 + Special delivery, more than 1 tape at £15.00 per hour of material (or part thereof)
I can usually repair snapped cassette tapes for £10.00
LP 12" £8.50 per side (one off's £20.00) + return postage
LP
12" Singles / EP's £5.00 per side (one off's £15.00)+ return postage
45's 7" Singles £4.00 per side (one off's £12.00)+
return postage
78's (up to 12") disks transferred for £6.00 per side +
return postage.
DAT tapes £9.00
per 30mins of material (or part therof)
Minidiscs transferred £25.00 for one off's and please call for multiple discount.
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 £4.60 and £15.00
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 recordings
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.
Equipment:
SONY TC-KE500S 3 head audiophile single
cassette player
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.
78's should be packed with a sheet
of corrugated cardboard
in between each disk as they are especially fragile, ensure
you mark the package "Do Not Bend".
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
or use the enquiry form below for further details:
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