Duplication Dept 9-5 M-F
Pro Audio Store
10-6 M-F & 12-4 SAT
Studios by Appt
Secret Earth Lab:
1150 N.W. 17th
Portland OR 97209
NW 17th
& Northrup
• E-Z Parking & launchpad
• Just West of the Pearl
& I-405 FWY
• On the NW Streetcar Line
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Digital archiving can save space, make material easily accessable once again, act as a Rosetta Stone,
clean up hard to play formats, & save deteriorating originals.
We put up to 2 hours of your video tape onto a DVD $30
From VHS,
Hi 8,
Mini DV,
or U-Matic ($20 addtional fee/tape)
Preserve & enjoy again your favorite Albums.
• We use exacting professional stylus & preamp technology for vinyl. Technics SL-1200Mk2/StantonStylus/ Stanton Professional preamp.
• Includes digital de-click & de-noising process for a greatly improved CD copy! Makes vinyl records sound better than ever! Obviously we can't do much for damaged vinyl- skips, or scratches may be an inherent part of the transfer. Whenever possible we try another pass at the questionable area, sometimes varying the stylus pressure.
• We index the CD to the album track markers or obvious unambiguous pause.
• We use archival grade CD's for a discs that will last for millenia.
• We convert 33 rpm, 45 rpm, or 78 rpm into CD .
Rates:
$35 per LP
• $45 per double album. • $12 per 45.
• CD Jewel Case included •
• Quantity discounts available for collections..
• Editing & additional restoration available.
• 78 prices- please call as these sometimes require extra attention that makes the transfer not cost effective.
• Gentle wash before play for optimum dub: $5 /Lp album ..
Downloadable Order form for transfers.
We are experts for making dubs of Cassettes or Reel to Reel Tapes onto CD. We do more of these dubs than anyone else in the area.
We have excellent pro equipment so your tape can sound as good as possible.1/4" Tape @ 30 • 15 • 7.5 ips • 1/2 track or 1/4 Track
Dolby SR or A or dbx type1 Noise Reduction is an addtlonal charge.
Restoration Rates:
$1.87per transferred minute with application of digital noise reduction & sonic enhancement & indexing of tracks. The best possible transfer. Or billed at standard remastering (human time to supervise) of $25/quarter hour. Downloadable Order form for transfers.
Verbatim (as is) reel dub:
$1.27 minute
$15 minimum per tape.
Verbatim (as is) cassette transfer to CD (80 minutes maximum) $25. .
50¢ /minute extra for next CD if over 80 minute recording
Editing (cutting out spots you don't want) is extra $25/quarter hour engineering time.
Special prices for non profits.
Downloadable Order form for transfers.
1/4" Tape @ 30 • 15 • 7.5 ips • 1/2 track or 1/4 Track
Dolby SR or A or dbx type1 Noise Reduction is an addtlonal charge.
Output format: Standard Audio CD, DVD, or Firewire Drive as .aiff audio. or .bwav 24 bit
@ 44.1 • 48 • 96 •192 khz
$25/quarter hour engineering time.
Send us your CDs & we we convert to IPOD format or mp3 at 128 k.
. We will need your IPOD , CDs, & IPOD to USB cable or mp3 player with cables.
Only $1 per CD transfer. $10 minimum
For mp3 players & IPOD.
Send your CDs & we convert to mp3 at 128 k.
$1 per CD transferred. $10 minimum.
Restoration of Degraded or Poorly Recorded Audio.
With our advanced digital tools we can dramatically clean up recordings & transfer them to CD,removing clicks, pops, tape hiss & surface noise,
We have resurrected many family tapes .
We can reduce hum & noise so valued recordings of loved ones
can be heard again.
We've provided restoration services for lawyers & cleaned up survellance & phone recordings.
Tape deteriorates with age & humidity.  We can dry the tape out thru our careful process and make it playable for a one time transfer to a more permanent digital medium.
While we can't always turn lead to gold, we can make significant improvements.
Our staff engineers have 20+ years experience.
We can filter out noise, lower hum, buzz, noise, hiss, clicks, pops, scratches, & other undesirable sounds.
Restoration services sometimes requires an engineer for contant supervision. The rate may vary upon the situation
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Fax to 503-228-6819
Mail your projects to:
SuperDigital ltd
1150 N.W. 17th
Portland OR 97209
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Typically we record audio to standard Red Book audio CD @ 16 bit/44.1 sample rate.
If you would prefer we can make data files in a higher resolution such as 24 bit/96khz as a .bwav file or .aiff, or .mp3 @ several different sample rates. The idea is to get an uncompressed capture of the source. Keep in mind the higher resolution means more storage space needed on the destination media.
We can put this on a CD, DVD, jump drive, hard drive, or a remote server.
Many cases we transfer tapes to several formats at once: on archival grade CD, & an mp3 for the web .
We transfer from :
Records,
Reels,
8-track cartridge
Cassettes,
MiniCassette,
Microcassette
DAT,
CD,
DVD,
Reel Tape: 1/4", 1/2", Half Track , Quarter track • 3 & 3/4 to 30 ips
with Dolby A , Dolby SR,, or dbx Noise reduction.
Speed: This refers to the speed the recording was made at.: 1 7/8, 3 3/3/4, 7 1/2, 15, or 30 inches per second. The faster the better the fidelity. "The more tape real estate to magnetise = better signal to noise ratio." Several speeds could be found any one tape in some cases.
Track Configuration: Quarter track ( 1/4track ) was 2 tracks ) in one direction, then you flipped the tape for 2 tracks in other direction. That's how consumer decks got 2x play time out of tapes.
All old tapes that you could buy in a record store were 1/4 track. The tape heads were stereo to play it depending on which side of the tape you played. Most all consumer decks of the late 60's and 70's were 1/4 track.
Studios normally had half track ( 1/2 track ) decks meaning left took up half the tape & right took up the other. Again, "The more tape real estate to magnetise = better signal to noise ratio."
Don't confuse 4 track with quarter track. 4 track might mean 4 discrete tracks or 4 channels like on a Tascam 488 cassette 4 tracker .
8 track refers to the old car stereo cartridges that had 4 stereo pairs of music so they could use less tape. These things had a lot of crosstalk and we not the best fidelity even tho they actually ran at 3 3/3ips.
8 track also could refer to the series of 20 year old Tascam & Otari 8 channel recorders that used 1/2" reel tape. There's still a lot of them floating around in budget studios, but digital has obsoleted them. They were used for recording bands rather than home or music playback purposes.
Size of the reel: we get 2",3", 5", 7", & 10 1/2". reels.
Noise Reduction:
If marked "dbx noise reduction" it needs to be decoded (or encoded if you are recording) just like Dolby noise reduction is used for the same purpose. We must decode it otherwise it will sound weird. Reel tapes were encoded with dbx Type 1 quite commonly in the 70's thru 90's because it was a good inexpensive way to minimize tape hiss for small studios.
Some reels and cassettes were encoded with dbx Type 2 which is similar to dbx Type 1 but with limited bandwidth. But it makes a difference to us in what unit to use.
Fancier studios encoded tapes with Dolby noise reduction. Dolby Type A was used a lot until Dolby SR came along in the early 80's. Dolby SR was the best of the tape noise reduction schemes and only used in studios for master tapes.
Dolby also made Type B for cassettes which was the most popular .
Dolby C & Dolby S came along and was found only in expensive cassette decks. Dolby B is the only one that can be played back without the tape sounding messed up.
We have all these boxes for playback of noise reduction formatted tapes.
If you need a tape transferred to CD we can do it CORRECTLY!
Condition of tape: Some play perfectly. Some need to be "dried out." Tapes that physically squeek or squeel on our machines are symptomatic of the need to be dried, as the tape has deteriorated.
This occurs when oxides stick to the magnetic heads . The tape heads & guides then build up a dirty residue during playback. The resulti: distortion, and “fuzzy”sounding, inaudible audio, & squeel .
We can correct this problem in most cases.
Information: We need to know what is written on the tape box ( length, title,etc.) and what you want to be transferred (if only part of the tape).
The date of the recording is helpful.
Estimate of cost: Many tapes that we get that are home recorded are all all over the place so we never know how much material is on them. There could be speed or head track variations, so we cant tell on old tape until we actually play them to give estimate for how long they are or what shape they are in. We can dry out and make playable tapes that have suffered the chemical breakdown that occurs over time and storage conditions.
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