Welcome To Analog Transfers

We have had good luck with USPS flat rate shipping. The large boxes are perfect for large audio and video reels. Please get a tracking number so you can see when your tapes arrive. It's also a great idea to send us the tracking number as well so we know when to expect delivery. We'll contact you when they arrive.

We will if you want them. If you do want them back, we put them in the same box they came in and pass the shipping cost on to you. If you do not want them, we hold them until you look at the transferred files and verify the digital files play properly for you. At that point we can dispose of the old tapes.

That depends on whether you have audio files or video files. Audio files are easily uploaded to our server for your download. CD disks are also available and returned to you via media mail. (postage is added to your invoice) Video on the other hand can take up a lot of drive spaceif you are wanting some of the brodcast uncompressed formats. Our experience is since all of these formats are natively SD (standard definition) it's almost impossible to see any difference in quality between Prores codec (149 Gb per hour) and Uncompressed (1.19 TB per hour). If you are transferring consumer formats like VHS and Betamax the final files can be made into a DVD and sent to you, or exported to an MP4 file that can be downloaded from our server. A quick opinion in the "for what it's worth" department: quickly DVD and CD disks have become an outdated format with fewer players available. Those formats could be just trading one obsolete format for another "soon to be" outdated format.

If you need your files on a drive, first pick a drive that is what you need for your computer and software. We can transfer on to any drive. To determine how big a drive you need the easiest way to figure it is to use the free Aja Data Calculator available here.AJA Data Calculator

First of all, if your tape is not able to be played you will not be charged for the transfer. But . . and this is a good "but", likely with our expertise we can get it to play. We first will determine the reason it won't play.Both audio and video tape can actually become gummy from environment and time. When this happens the tape becomes either glued to the adjacent wrap of tape and tears and breaks the tape when played (called "blocking"), or the gummy tape oxide comes off on the tape guides and tape heads causing the tape to stop the machine. Other possibilities are simply a broken tape or the tape has mold on it. We can resolve most issues and of course it's an extra fee. Before we do anything, if we find a tape that will not play we'll notify you immediately with our evaluation, cost for the solution and liklihood of it being successful. If we cannot successfully transfer your damaged tape we will only charge for the repair/restoration attempt.

If your video tape has color bars and tone on it we'll set up the machine to that. Most video machines have a time base corrector that will help stability and fix many tape dropouts. If your tape doesn't have bars and tone we'll adjust levels for both as best we can get. Many audio tapes have tones and we'll set our machine to those. Tapes with no tone we adjust levels as accurately as possible.

Usually we can. We can correct color that is not right for whatever reason. We can can adjust the black levels to give your image that rich look we're all so used to. We have video noise reduction to take out "snow" on your image. As for audio, we can adjust equalization, levelsl and dynamic levels. We can reduce ambience or remove hums, buzzes and some distortions. If it's music we can raise or lower levels of individual musical elements like vocals, drums, bass etc. We won't do any of this without contacting you and letting you know what we can do and what it will cost. It's all way cheaper than you could image because it's all done on our computers so it's not real time like transferring is.

Yes we can. Generally if it's a studio master recording we don't want to alter it. On most recordings we can really help the sound. We can smooth out the frequency response, control the dynamic range, remove those annoying sssss sounds (sibilance), remove the rumble of air conditioning or trucks, add clarity through aural exciters and remove square wave distortion. By taking a mono recording and running through our stereo simulator we can allow things to be heard that were previously buried. If it's music we can raise or lower levels of individual musical elements like vocals, drums, bass etc.. We contact you if we think we could improve your audio. Again, it's a lot cheaper than you can imaginesince it's not real time like transferring is.

Our work flow is to digitize all the tracks on your tape at once with no additional processing. All the tracks start at exactly the same time so you can drop them into your DAW and they will all be in sync and ready to mix. If you'd like us to mix your multitrack we'll give you a price. This is done by studio owner Greg Rike who has been mixing for over 4 decades. You won't be disappoined - and can make changes before you get the final master. We contact you if we think we could improve your audio.