Archival audio transfers require much more than just playing back a tape and handing you a CD! Proper playback requires:
- Proper acoustics in the transfer room to allow critical evaluation and capture of sound.
- The highest quality analog equipment (from names like Studer, Nakamichi, Keith Monks, Bryston and B&W). The highest quality digital equipment from Sonic Solutions, Pacific Microsonics, Prism Sound, Rimage, and Sony.
- Staff with a wide range and great depth of experience. Not only will the engineer working on your project have prior experience with the format in question, they will probably have worked with it when it was new! [No, we don't have anyone who worked on Edison Cylinders when they were new.]
- Our staff also includes a former university library cataloguer who oversees our master storage database, maintains authority files, defines short record formats, and assists with MARC cataloging issues!
- Each project is tracked by a custom database, written in-house, and includes fields specific to that project. Clients are closely involved in the design of the database. In this way the database will meet the needs of your project, and be easy to integrate into your existing records.
*Techno babble for the gear head on your staff:
Our five transfer rooms were designed by Doug Jones of EASI. They provide isolation from outside noise (including our own air conditioning) with a background noise of just NC15! Adjacent room isolation is of STC65. Electrical wiring is capable of both 110V and 220V in each room. Star-ground system with less than 0.1V potential between neutral and ground.
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