Home-Made-Records Restoration to CD
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Price: $103.79
(AS LOW AS $75.77 See below)
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Details
We accept under this category and pricing:
- records at any speed (78 rpm, 45 rpm or 33 1/3 rpm)
- made by a home recorder
- by an "automat" type machine in a department store
- letter-records ("Your Man in Service", etc.)
- USO records (branded "USO", "Pepsi", "Coca Cola", etc.).
- Other brands include "Recordio", "Wilcox Gay", "Voice-O-Graph", "Silvertone", "Federal Perma", and many more.
- Some records are made of metal, some are cardboard. Some have a layer of "black paint" (lacquer), some are colored (red or green, etc.).
- All are very noisy and require specialized, extra care and professional experience to achieve a satisfying and safe transfer to CD.
- IMPORTANT: A CD holds maximum 80 minutes, which is the maximum duration processed as "One Project". If you submit short 78rpm records, it is very possible that they will all fit on one 80-minute CD. If you submit long 33rpm records, we will put as many records as will fit on one 80-minute CD as one "Project". Remaining records will be processed and charged as a separate "Project" (or "Projects"). Example: Twelve 78rpm home-made records, at 6 minutes each (total 72 minutes) will fit on one CD (one "Project"). Twelve 33rpm home-made records, at 40 minutes each (total 480 minutes) will fit on 6 CDs, and will be processed and charged as 6 "Projects".
Home-Made-Records to CD Transfers (with Sound Restoration) - What you get for your $:
- Each record is cleaned in a professional record cleaning machine prior to playback.
- The needle is deep cleaned and conditioned before each play.
- The record is wiped again before playing each side.
- Playback and recording on professional equipment (each of our interconnect cables costs more than the average discounter's studio...).
- XQ (Extreme Quality) Service - Premium stylus/cartridge, premium tonearm, premium turntable and electronics.
- Playback and recording is continuously monitored by sound engineers.
- Tracking problems are corrected. Severe tracking problems or defects will incur Recording Fee(s).
- Sound Restoration is applied (each individual record is restored separaly).
- XQ (Extreme Quality) Service - More individual Sound Engineer time for processing.
- An MP3 CD of this project (if selected).
- Each Home-Made-Record side gets 1 track. Our CDs are cut into tracks by human beings who know where a new track should begin. We do not use automatic cutting into tracks.
- CD is printed (we do not use glued-on labels).
- CD is quality checked.
- CD is delivered in "classic jewel-case" (with optional Color CD Cover and Track List).
- Over 22 years experience - 19,000 successful projects.
- On-line tracking system.
- Automatic email notifications on receipt of your recordings and order check-out.
- Optional RUSH Services: 1 week or 72 hours turnaround time
NOTE:
- A CD holds maximum 80 minutes. If all Home-Made-Records you submit will fit on one CD, we will make one CD. Otherwise, we will make two or several master CDs. In that case, when ordering Extra CD Copies you will need Extra CD Copies for each of the master CDs.
- These records are EXTREMELY noisy. Restoring the sound of these records is by far the most time consuming compared with any of the other formats.
- Playback and recording of these records is difficult, due to many imperfections in the surface of the record.
- Some recordings may require more work than the time allotted by these pre-calculated rates. AT YOUR REQUEST, we will be happy to work on restoring these recordings at our current studio rate. No need to worry, we will not charge our studio rate without your specific request or consent.
- We ask our customers not to send in records that are warped, cracked or otherwise damaged. Occasionally we receive records in such poor shape that additional recording or restoration time is needed. This usually happens with very faint recordings, recordings deteriorated by mold or records with deteriorated surfaces. In these cases (and only if absolutely necessary), we will charge Recording Fee(s) (or Individual Restoration Unit(s)).
- We ask our customers to use common sense in what to expect for final quality from Home Made Records: if a record is in horrible condition, the CD will NOT sound perfect. It will sound better than the original record, but better than "horrible" is "very bad"! It is better to have modest expectation that will be exceeded, than to have unrealistic expectations and be disappointed. Restoring a bunch of 50-60-70 year-old records that sat in the attic for the last 40 years is a gamble: the end result may be great, horrible, or somewhere in the middle. We, as professionals, will tilt the odds in favor of "quality". However, we do not participate in the gamble.
- Now that you read about all these possible charges, you are all scared. We will not rip you off! If we were ripping off our customers we would not be where we are today: one of the best and most reputable Sound Restoration businesses in the United States, at the same physical location since 1999, at the same Internet location since 1998, in business since 1990. All records sent to us that "behave" (play correctly and do not generate excessive amounts of extra work) do not incur any additional charges. Only if a record generates additional work (as described above) we will charge additional fees. Even when additional work is needed and additional fees are charged, we will not "run wild" with charges. There is a point where, if a record needs that much work, it is a "terrible" record. A "terrible" record will not sound much better no matter how much extra work is put into it. We recognize that and for "terrible" records we limit our work to the minimum required in order to complete the transfer.
- XQ (Extreme Quality) Service - recommended for getting the most out of your original material.
- This service opens access to our premium equipment.
- Each recording receives more individual Sound Engineer time.
