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Audio restoration, transfer and digitising service in Harrow

We specialise in early recording formats wax cylinders, shellac 78s, Edison

diamond, raw aluminium discs, Pathé vertical discs, RCA home recordings

We can also digitise records that are on other formats including vinyl, CDs,

cassettes for educational research projects or to preserve family memories

Artists, musicians and historical record collectors can now have their work

transferred to digital file and there is also an option of recording to a blank

wax cylinder or having a vinyl / polycarbonate record made using our lathe

Our high quality transfers are 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 in the public domain can be duplicated to a blank wax cylinder

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Shellac and Vinyl

Equipment Used

Technics SP-10, Technics SL-1200, Cartridges include Nagaoka NMP, 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 Yamaha KX-130 Single Cassette Deck connected to an editing computer with Audacity

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

Dedicated workstation computers installed with External Hitachi CD / DVD Optical Drives

Formats

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

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