API'S Analog to HD3 Pro Tools Session or File Digital Transfers - When it's gone it's gone!

It's not a matter of if you transfer-it's a matter of when you transfer. If you don't want to lose your creative work forever, sooner or later you'll have to take those old dusty analog masters off the shelf and have them transferred to a stable digital format.

Audio Productions has assembled all available analog formats from wire and micro cassette to 48 track, added a variety of state of the art digital formats and put them together with over 35 years of audio experience to create the nations finest  transfer facility.    

Why?  First, the machines on which the audio was recorded typically become either obsolete, or, at best, difficult to locate.  Second, the medium itself deteriorates.

Magnetic tape, especially some brands manufactured in the period from the mid seventies to the mid eighties, had inherent problems with the substrate and binder, which can lead to numerous difficulties. These include, but are not limited to, clogging the head of the playback machine and/or damaging the tape when played if proper precautions are not taken.  This tape problem is often referred to as "Sticky-Shed".

At Audio Productions, our staff has extensive experience in dealing with magnetic tape.  In addition to intimate familiarity with virtually all brands of tape, we have been factory trained in machine maintenance by Ampex, Studer, Otari, Scully and MCI.  This is important because we own various machines from each of these manufacturers and have the equipment, expertise, and supplies to maintain them in-house; in fact, we even maintain machines for other facilities.

Don't wait until time causes your valuable recordings to deteriorate further. Let us transfer them to a more reliable format.  Digital formats are recommended because the materials will more than likely need transferring to a more advanced format in the future, and digital transfers stand a better chance of surviving these additional manipulations intact. 

When you choose Audio Productions, you can be confident that we have the equipment and expertise to transfer your precious recordings safely and transparently.

Here are some of the formats that we support:

Audio Tape
2" 24 Track 2" 16 Track 1" 8 Track
½" 4 Track  ½" 3 Track  ¼" 2 Track
(NAB or IEC1 Equalization available for 2 Track recordings)

1/4'"2 Track w/Time code  ¼" (4) Track  Stereo 
¼"(4) Track Mono    Cassette
Micro cassette NAB Tape Cartridge (Mono) 
NAB Tape Cartridge (Stereo) 
Wire Recordings
Webcor

Tape "Baking" facilities for "Sticky-Shed" Problems

Vinyl
78 RPM  45 RPM 331/3 RPM
16"   12"   10"

Noise Reduction Systems
Dolby A  Dolby SR  Dolby B 
Dolby C  Dolby HX Pro DBX Type I
DBX Type II Burwen

Computer
Most Popular Computer Files
WAV   AIFF   MP3

Digital Media
DAT    ADAT  DA-88
Mini Disc  Bernoulli Jaz 1 GB
Jaz 2 GB  Zip 100 Zip 250
Exabyte

Others may be available call!

Many different SOFTWARE tools for NOISE REDUCTION and RESTORATION available.