AUDIO RESTORATION

Audio Restoration is simply the fancy term for taking your old dusty audio media, cleaning it up, and converting it into a more modern listening format, such as CD. It can be as simple as recording a cassette to CD and hearing it exactly as is, or it can be as advanced as taking your vinyl record and removing all of the clicks, pops, hiss, and other extraneous noises. You also have the option of having songs indexed (broken up into individual tracks on the CD) so you won’t have to mess with those fast forward and rewind buttons anymore.

Park Audio Restoration can take your old LPs, cassettes, 8 tracks, reels, DAT tapes, and Mini Discs and restore them onto CD. You have several options to choose from with flexible pricing, so have a look at the various services listed below and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Basic Album Transfer

(Pre recorded cassette, LP, 8 track, or reel)

$35/each

Service includes: Audio from any given format is recorded digitally into professional studio software and converted to digital audio files.  Audio files are then normalized (gain maximized) and indexed (songs are broken up into individual tracks onto an audio CD).  You will receive each album (cassette or record) on a separate CD.  Each audio CD master is then placed into a slimline jewel case with a note or CD sticky label indicating the album title.

Deluxe Album Transfer

(Pre recorded cassette, LP, 8 track, or reel)

$55/each

Service includes: Same as Basic Album Transfer package but also includes the following: each song is specifically treated with noise reduction filtering (click/pop removal and/or tape hiss reduction). Basic EQ may also be applied in order to reduce vinyl or tape rumble. This also improves the sonic quality of typical frequency deficiencies, which can be apparent in worn out/aged media.

In some cases the noise on the original album can be so unpleasant or harsh that only minimal noise reduction can be applied, because greater amounts of noise reduction can sometimes affect the natural audio in an undesirable way. In most cases, the noise reduction greatly improves the listening quality, and also allows you to hear the music/material the way it was intended to be heard.

General Transfer

(Cassette, LP, or Reel)

$15/side

Service includes: Audio from any given format (e.g., an old recording that you may have that contains you talking with your toddlers, a piano recital, church sermon, or college lecture etc.)  Audio files recorded digitally into professional studio software and converted to digital audio files, normalized (gain maximized,) and each side (of the cassette, LP, or reel) will become a single track on a CD. Example: side A will be track 1, and side B will be track 2 etc. Each audio CD master is then placed into a slimline jewel case with a note or CD sticky label indicating the cassette/LP(s) title.

SERVICE DESCRIPTION AND BREAKDOWN

CD Labeling & Jewel Case

$5/each

Service includes: In addition to your audio CD master(s) you can choose to have a complete CD label. This includes a computer generated sticky label for the actual CD, a computer generated Jewel case insert, and a computer generated tray liner, which contains a basic text track listing and additional album info.

Deluxe CD Labeling

$15/each

Service includes: The front and back images on the jewel case inserts are the front and back album jacket images, scanned and reduced to fit. The image on the CD is the record label, scanned and altered to reflect the playlist.

Deluxe noise reduction filtering and EQ

$10/project

Service includes: applying the same processing and noise reduction as the "deluxe album transfer" to any project or transfer.

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