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 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 and Nakamichi models by special 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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