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Audio Transfer Service

Audio-cassettes, open-reel tapes and Digital Audio Tapes (DATs) can start to decay in less than 10 years.

Having your recordings on Compact Disc keeps them safe and makes it easy to make additional CD copies with no loss of quality.

Just bring or send tapes to CD-ROM Services Pty Ltd at Ground Floor, 173 Pacific Hwy, North Sydney.

Cost of audio transfer onto one CD-R

  

Job Setup

$20

Audio transfer per 60 minutes (or part thereof) including Audio CD

$60

Additional CD copies

1 to 24 additional copies
including black printing on the disc
and insertion into a jewel or slimline case

$6 each

25 or more copies

See our Duplication page.

Above prices are for direct transfer only, excluding editing or equalization.

Audio editing or equalization

$50 per half hour
or part thereof

Tape Baking
More info on tape baking

$50 per bake

Copyright

Under Australian law, all data and sound recordings are automatically copyright until the author or composer has been dead for 70 years. We strictly adhere to Copyright Law, and will transfer your data or audio only if you own the copyright or have a licence from the relevant authorities, or if the data or recording is not subject to copyright.

It makes no difference if the CD is for sale, or for promotional use, or private use only - the same laws apply, and in all cases appropriate licences must be obtained before we can copy works which are subject to copyright.

We can, however, transfer your personal recordings for which you or a member of your family own the copyright, such as:

Suitable Audio Formats

DAT (Digital Audio Tape): 

  • DATs may be sampled at 32, 44.1 or 48 kHz, but for highest quality transfer to CD, 44.1 kHz is preferred.

  • Please use new tapes where possible.

  • Please record silence for at least 30 seconds before the start of the first track of audio.

  • Start IDs should be present to indicate where you want tracks to change on the CD.

Mini Disc: 

  • You should have tracks on the Mini Disc correspond to where you want the tracks on the CD.

  • Standard Play is preferred, but Long Play (MDLP2 or MDLP4) is available. HI-MD is currently not available. If you have a HI-MD disc to be transferred, you will also need to supply a HI-MD player.

WAV or AIFF files on disc: 

  • Any sample rate up to 96 kHz.

MP3 files: 

  • On disc, or via email or FTP.

Quarter inch analogue open reel tape: 

  • Without dbx or Dolby noise-reduction.

  • The following tape speeds are available:

    • 4.76 cm/s (1 7/8 ips).

    • 9.5 cm/s (3 3/4 ips).

    • 19.05 cm/s (7 1/2 ips).

    • 38.1 cm/s (15 ips).

  • The following recording formats are available:

    • Full track mono.

    • Half track mono or stereo.

    • Quarter track mono or stereo (up to 19.05 cm/s).

PCM on Betamax: 

  • Sony 501 or compatible, PAL only.

Betamax HiFi: 

  • PAL only

Audio Cassette: 

  • Audio can be transferred from a standard audio-cassette, but this is not recommended (if there is any higher-quality alternative) due to the generally inferior quality of cassettes and the compatibility problems associated with phase alignment and Dolby playback level.

Tape Baking

When magnetic recording tapes are being stored, moisture is slowly absorbed by the binder that holds the components of the tape together. Affected tapes will squeak when played back. The squeaking can be heard directly from the tape passing over the playback head and other fixed parts of the player, but is also transmitted electronically through the playback head. Often the tape will also sound dull and distorted.

If you hear a tape that is squeaking, stop playing the tape immediately. Continuing to play a squeaking tape can cause permanent damage to the tape, and in some cases damage to the player.

This problem can happen to any tape, but is more common in tapes manufactured after the mid 1970s in the USA.

The solution to the problem of squeaking tapes is to bake the tapes at very low temperature in an oven. There are as many different opinions about optimum temperature and duration of baking as there are audio engineers. Certainly, do not attempt to bake your own tapes unless you can be certain that the temperature in your oven will not exceed 60 degrees Celsius.

CD ROM Services Pty Ltd offers a tape baking service, and although we have successfully baked well over a hundred tapes, and haven't damaged one, we will take all care in baking your tapes, but cannot take responsibility for accidental damage. If you give us your tapes to bake, it is on the basis that you agree with this. We will bake your tape only if we are also transferring the content of the tape to another format.

 

Cost of tape baking

One bake, including up to:

  • 8 five inch open-reel tapes, or

  • 3 seven inch open-reel tapes, or

  • 2 ten inch open-reel tapes.
$50

Please Contact Us if you have different tapes to the ones listed above.