Restoration

An additional service for any audio restoration needs

Digitising of older media to the format of your choice

Donate your wax phonograph cylinder to our archive

Please also consider donating to a reaearch centre such as the British Library's Sound Archive,

which have the appropriate facilities to look after the cylinder without further damage, donations

of wax cylinders to our archive will be well preserved and can be digitised if requested by donor.

We specialise in the transfer and digitising of Wax Cylinders, Shellac and Vinyl,

to offer high quality transfers that match the original at competitive rates.

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Wax Cylinders

Equipment used

The Symposium Records Prototype Electric Phonograph for Cylinder Archiving

Edison & Pathe Cylinder Phonographs, Canaphonic Archivette for Phonographs

Formats

Edison 2 and 4 minute, Amberol Cylinder, Edison Brown Wax Cylinder, Edison

Bell Cylinder, Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder

Clarion Wax Cylinder, International Phonograph Indestructible Cylinder, Oxford

Records Cylinder, Pathe Cylinders (both sizes), Sterling Wax Cylinder

Recordings of any type can also be duplicated to a playable blank wax cylinder

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Shellac and Vinyl

Equipment Used

Technics SP10 , Technics SL-1200 , Cartridges include Shure M44-7, Orofon Concorde,

and a range of varied sized elliptical and spherical stylus for specialised types of grooves

Formats

Shellac, vinyl, acetate, lacquer of all sizes, speeds and varieties such as 12" 78 or 45 rpm

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(Reel-to-Reel Tapes)

Equipment Used

The Revox G36, Minifon P55 Wire Recorder with different sized tape reels and accessories

Formats

Quarter track, half track and full track tape format and most common speed configurations

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Compact Cassettes

Equipment Used

The Sony LBT LX9AV HIFI, Nakamichi and Yamaha professional models (by request only)

Formats

Compact cassette type I, compact cassette type II, compact cassette type III, and type IVs

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Compact Discs (CDs)

Equipment Used

The Sony LBT LX9AV HIFI and computers installed with the Hitachi CD and DVD Burners

Formats

All Compact Disc formats CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD, Video CD and Minidisc

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