Audio Recordings

Reel-to-Reel, Records and Cassettes to CD or MP3

Transfer your old audio recordings to digital

Hear Your Old Recordings Again on CD or as MP3s!

Preserve precious audio recordings of voices from the past. Listen to your favorite old records and cassettes again on your CD or MP3 player.

Our top-of-the-line audio hardware and software, plus our in-house audio expertise, enable us to create high quality digital reproductions of your original recordings.

Once we have a digital file, we can improve the original sound quality and restore damaged or degraded audio.

Pricing

To MP3

Cassettes (2 sides) – $24.95, one side only $19.95

Vinyl Records (2 sides) – $29.95, one side only $19.95
78 Records (difficult) – $90.00 per hour editing time

Reel-to-Reel – $29.95/track/30 minutes
$29.95 per track minimum, pro-rated after 30 minutes
Reel-to-Reel – track check – $9.95 per reel/track

To Playable Disc

Playable CD – $9.95/disc (up to 80 minutes per)

Audio Samples

A Sample audio track from one of our clients oral story projects

Click to play a sample audio track from one of our clients oral story projects

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ACCEPTED FORMATS
  • Records – All sizes and speeds; vinyl, shellac, acetate, celluloid, flexible plastic
  • Reel-to-Reel audio tape
  • Cassette tapes – Standard (compact), mini, micro & digital
WHAT’S INCLUDED
  • Meeting with you to discuss the details of your project. If you’ve mailed your material, we’ll call you for details.
  • Cleaning your records to remove dust & debris that builds up over time.
    Transferring your recording beginning to end, as one long track per side, using top-of-the-line audio equipment and software.Monitoring sound quality from start to finish.
    Creating your playable CD or MP3s. Using professional editing software, we:
    Remove silence at the beginning and end of the recording
    Filter to remove minor pops and hiss
  • One Original Copy of your project as an MP3 file to a drive (drive not included) or on a playable CD printed with a title of your choice in a CD jewel case

    Your original materials are returned to you with your finished product. All audio work is done by our professionally trained staff in our studio, and the originals do not leave our site. We strictly observe copyright laws.

     
PREPARING YOUR MATERIALS
  1. Select the audio recordings you would like digitized.
  2. Organize the originals into order, by date, subject or any other order you prefer. Click here if you need help organizing.
  3. Number each original to help us keep them in order. Use a pencil or sticky notes. Do not use ink or marker.
  4. Select a title for each of your originals.
  5. Decide on other options to edit and enhance your recordings.
  6. Think about how many copies you’ll need.
  7. Copyright laws do apply. At a minimum, we recommend purchasing an archive copy on Gold DVD that can be stored for safe keeping.

  8. Call us, visit our Boulder or Lone Tree location, or click here to order by mail/email.

Convert Your CDs!

Have tons of CDs? Wish that music was available to listen to on your computer or in your mobile MP3 player? We can help! Allow us to convert your CD’s to MP3 format. We can put up to 50 CDs worth of music on 1 data disc!

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ENHANCE

Our audio technicians can make dramatic improvements to original sound quality and restore damaged or degraded audio, transforming garbled hiss into the sounds of Grandpa’s storytelling and children singing.

Cleaning records well, using top-of-the-line audio hardware and software, and keeping our equipment clean and well-maintained, enables us to create the best digital reproduction of your original recordings possible. But in the case of scratches & grooves, degraded tape, or poor original sound quality, it’s often necessary to enhance the sound quality digitally. Let us know if you’d like copies of both the edited and unedited versions.

Most audio enhancement and sound cleaning is billed at $90.00/hour. Call for an estimate to:

  • Remove pronounced “snap, crackle & pop” or hiss from your recordings
  • Reduce sound damage from extensive play & scratches and/or other unwanted noise specific to your recording.
  • Normalize unusually high or low volume

Other options to enhance your disc include:

  • Cover Artwork – add an exact replica of original cover artwork to the case cover. $19.95/side
  • Disc Face Artwork – want the cover art printed on the disc? We can add it. $9.95
  • Track Listing on Disc Face – add track listings to the disc face. $9.95/12 tracks
EDIT

Would you like your original audio file broken into individual tracks, or sections of your original deleted?

Most editing is billed at $90.00/hour. Call for an estimate to:

  • Separate Tracks – All audio media is captured as one long track per side (or per track from reel-to-reel tapes). If you’d like individual songs or sections of your recording saved as separate audio files, or as separate audio tracks on your playable CD, we can easily do that for you.
  • Remove sections from your original
 
ORGANIZE
  • Rough-Cut CD – Listen to your unknown recordings on a rough-cut CD before we create your final recording. No charge to reorder or delete tracks for the final cut. First hour $29.95, Additional hours $9.95/hour
  • Combining and Reordering Tracks – Your original recordings (as entire sides, reels or cartridges) can be easily combined in the order you designate onto one CD or DVD to fill the media (up to 80 minutes of .wav files will fit on a CD). For an additional editing cost, selections from within your original recordings can also be individually captured, and combined or rearranged in a different order, on your final CD or DVD. $90.00/hour

 

 
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SHARE

Now that your precious home recordings are digital, let everybody listen!

Duplicates are available for home recordings and non-copyright protected material only!

  • Copies – At only $9.95/disc, copies make great gifts. Need several? Ask about our discounts for 4 or more.
  • Copy Set (multiple disc original set) – $7.95/disc with discounts for 4 or more.
  • Your new digital audio can be placed in nearly every format from .mp3, .wav, .wma, or simply put on an audio CD.
  • Get multiple formats so you can listen in your car stereo or on your portable music player.
PRESERVE

Keep your sounds safe for generations.

  • Gold DVD/CD Archive Copy $9.95 additional/disc
  • We stand by the discs we use as being high-quality everyday discs. But for archiving, Gold Archive Grade DVDs and CDs are the preferred media. Gold DVDs can be used as reliable storage media for more than 300 years and Gold CDs for 100 years.
  • Enjoy your original and store your Gold DVD/CD archive copy in a safety deposit box or other safe place

Testimonials

Thank you – the film transfers look terrific! It cost a little more than I had imagined, but it was well worth it. You did a great job and be sure that I will recommend your work anytime. I already did my first DVD with some of the clips and it just looks great!

Emilio Suarez

Niwot, Colorado

Just wanted to thank you again for the great job you did on my family’s movies. They were a big hit, especially the first DVD – The Early Years. Mom and Dad both teared up as they told their children and grandchildren about our family’s history.

Oke Johnson

Superior, CO