Join Everett Porter, producer and engineer at Polyhymnia Studios, in the process of remastering Leonard Bernstein's 9...

Joe_caithness

I just got in 60+ classical recordings that the client wants to make into an anthology. They range from the late 60's to the...

Thomas W. Bethe

I've just done a high resolution transfer of a studio tape from 1981, but it sounds really screwed up. The transfer from 1992...

eccentricexhibit

I just got three tape decks A Tascam 32, a Tascam 34 and an Otari MX-5050B four channel machine. My friend is getting out the...

Thomas W. Bethe

A slightly unusual case for me. I received a 3" reel, 1/4" tape to transfer. It was one of those "living...

timtape

Hi all Is it possible to add punchiness to a ripped track sourced from vinyl? i can undertand the process for adding punch...

futurebrain

A local resident, who I know, called me to ask if I could transfer 6 audio cassettes to CDs. I told her "yes" so...

Thomas W. Bethe

It played back perfectly with no problems. I pre spooled it just to make sure there were no broken splices or adhesion problems....

Thomas W. Bethe

This was for a local client. The records were 33.3 RPM, 45 RPM and 78 RPM. They were all done on vinyl. The transfers came off...

Thomas W. Bethe

Hi, I purchased a tape that seems to be impossible to find a player for. A very early digital tape format, "3M 265 Digital...

Tootai

See here...

Thomas W. Bethe

The distortion is caused by a) overloaded inputs on the original recordings b) by using the wrong bias settings on the cassette...

Thomas W. Bethe

Something a little different. Film audio is still audio and it seems sometimes neglected or even looked down upon as of...

timtape

I just transferred 22 C-90 cassettes. Now the client wants me to edit out the "pregnant pauses" where the speaker...

Thomas W. Bethe

When listening to a track made from roughly 1960's to 1980's on Spotify or any similar streaming service.... what am I...

contramark

From a recent client via Email Hi Tom: I want to thank you for the masterful job you did of repairing my old audio cassette...

Thomas W. Bethe

Yo. I have a Tascam 112mk3 which I used maybe for 4 hours and the push buttons (and therefore maybe the logic controls?) have...

Joe_caithness

The cassette deck playback does not even register on the deck's VU meters. It was recorded in a living room with a group of women...

Thomas W. Bethe

I got a phone call today from a prospective client. He called at 8am this morning and hung on the phone for over 20 minutes. He...

Thomas W. Bethe

I just got a strange phone call from a potential client. He wanted me to do some transfer work. So I asked him what was the...

Thomas W. Bethe

I have this out-of-state client for a while. We do sporadic work for them. They are now questioning how much I charge for the...

Thomas W. Bethe

Four of them are "Radio Shack" two of them are name brands. All of the Radio Shack cassettes were "jammed"...

Thomas W. Bethe

It was recorded in the 1960s in Vietnam by a US service man. 1/4 track recorded in both directions at 3 3/4 ips on a roll of .5...

Thomas W. Bethe

So I get in a cassette that was done sometime in the 70's. It was done on a battery operated cassette deck on a really cheap...

Thomas W. Bethe

I got in a tape to transfer. It was 15 ips but did not play well on my four channel 1/4" machine or on my 2 track...

Thomas W. Bethe

I got in a transfer from Texas. It cost the sender over $15.00 to send the 10.5" reel to me for transfer. It was a reel of...

Thomas W. Bethe

Doing some transfers for a client of some DAT tapes that were done in the early 1990s. Of the four DAT tapes I have been given to...

Thomas W. Bethe

The problem is he does not know what format they are in or how long each tape is but wants me to "ballpark" a cost per...

Thomas W. Bethe

Doing some work for a local symphony orchestra. They brought me two tapes that were broadcast tapes of one of their concerts. It...

Thomas W. Bethe

Hello, I want to ask you if there is a cloning eq that changes the frequency of songs!I try this time magix samplitude and it...

thebest20

The tape is Scotch 111 recorded as a 4 track tape at 3 3/4" ips. Recorded in both directions. It is of a wedding. The...

Thomas W. Bethe

I just did a really old cassette transfer for a client. The audio was really bad and I used RX-10 to clean it up. Client was...

Thomas W. Bethe

The client dropped of 20+ reels of tape in varying formats and sizes and wants us to transfer all of them to CDs but also wants...

Thomas W. Bethe

Hello everyone, I wonder if any of you have some ideas on a good service to use for sending my customers a link, and have them...

musicinthemaking

We were using this...

Thomas W. Bethe

This one in particular is very interesting. Some very good, interesting reading...and lots of HOW TOs FWIW

Thomas W. Bethe

I have a live video recording of a country band, done with a handheld digital camera with an onboard stereo mic, where I'm trying...

Henrik Hjortnaes

I just got a RME ADI-2-FS (See https://www.rme-audio.de/ADI-2-FS.html) for our video studio. We do a lot of transfer work and...

Thomas W. Bethe

Hey! To be honest I'm not sure if this is the place to post this but I'm needing tips and help with an audio dump I was asked to...

Jkor

Hello, I want to find an equalizer or something to use a reference song and improve vinyl recordings. These vinyls from Greek 70s...

thebest20

All the reels seem "overfilled" meaning that there is so much tape on the reels it is spilling off. Usually on Scotch...

Thomas W. Bethe

Some of the topics have been recently discussed here.kfhkh

Thomas W. Bethe

Quite an undertaking and with the extra time to do the post editing I am looking at over 130 hours of billable time. The...

Thomas W. Bethe

These are some tape splices from recent transfer projects...FWIW Somewhere I have a tape with 12" of splicing tape on it. I...

Thomas W. Bethe

A client brought this in and wanted it transferred to an MP3. I told her it was impossible. This is the first time I have...

Thomas W. Bethe

Hi there, while I've been suffering from Covid 19 I've been ordering in some more obscure/different formats as a challenge to see...

Joe_caithness

I've had a request from a friend of mine who's producing a film to use a song that a band of mine did back in 1989. I'd like to...

nightchef

Got in some Acetate disks to transfer. Never saw one done on a steel plate like these. I have seen them on aluminum and glass...

Thomas W. Bethe

Recently I was asked to digitize a 1975 1/4" half track mono interview tape recording which on test play had way too many...

timtape

A client brings us 6 cassettes to "fix". Most are over 40 years old and the leader tape splice or the tape in the...

Thomas W. Bethe

I get a call from a potential client who wants me to clean up some audio and video off her cell phone of what she says was her...

Thomas W. Bethe