Audio Restoration

Services - Transfers and Duplication

Transfers - Wire Recording - Vintage 78's - Edison - Pathe' - Little Wonders - early Victor and many others

We transfer from almost any video or audio format to CD.  We handle the early vintage 78 discs to wire recordings and just about anything in between. We can also transfer to any other supported format including even broadcast, home or even vintage & obsolete video formats.

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Audio Restoration Philosophy

Our philosophy is to employ the minimum amount of filtering required to reduce significantly reduce noise levels without the audio becoming "muddy".   (Audio processing almost always involves a tradeoff between fidelity and noise).  At your request we can deviate from that philosophy by employing more aggressive techniques where warranted.  We can also enhance the original by heterodyning up mid-range frequencies to the high end (audio exciter), adding "warmth", increasing "hardness", equalizing, de-clipping, compressing or expanding.

Though digital processing can perform some near miracles, it does have it's limits.  Records with excessively worn grooves where even a "sweet spot" no longer exists, can never be restored to pristine condition.  There simply isn't enough good audio information remaining with which to work.  Likewise, audio levels driven into severe clip or saturation pose similar results. We can run the audio thru a de-clipper that attempts to predict how the flattened top should look, but it's effective only in cases of minor clipping where it doesn't have to "guess" how much of the missing audio information might have looked.

Types Of Audio Transfers

Direct - Raw Transfer Only (Absolute minimal cost)

No restoration is employed - whatever was on the original source is accurately copied - including all the noise such as hisses, hum, clicks, pops, scratches, etc etc etc... The final CD is not broken down into tracks. It's one CD track of the entire recording. No Labeling - No Frills !

This is the least expensive type of transfer. It is the most effective means to get a precious recording preserved and archived at absolute minimal cost. It is also desirable by audiophiles who have their own restoration software but haven't the playback equipment to safely recover the audio stream from rare vintage formats, or for those who wish to experiment for themselves.

What it does give you is the best accurate copy of the master in a digital format for archiving or restoration at a later date.

Direct by Track

As above with no restoration applied, but the transfer is segmented into separate tracks before recording to CD for easy track selection.

Transfer & Global Restoration  (Best overall value)

Includes both transfer and restoration of the master.  First the separate audio tracks are copied to a hard drive then analyzed for the best overall restoration techniques to be employed for the entire final transfer. This level of restoration is quite effective for all tracks that came off the same record for example, as the type of noise encountered will most likely be consistent across the original disc.

For tracks spanning different sources, global restoration is usually not the best method, as the types of problems will all be quite different and thus a "one fix cures all" approach simply won't work well.

Transfer & Restoration by Track  (Highest Quality)

Every track is separately analyzed and the best restoration technique and filters are employed for each individual track. As you can imagine, this is more labor intensive and costs are based upon the number of separate tracks to be restored.