Do you remember the days when the crackle of a vinyl record was the prelude to your favorite songs? Or the magnetic harmony resonating from an audio cassette tape? Perhaps you’re a collector with a prized set of 45s, or a sentimentalist with a drawer full of microcassettes featuring memories from yesteryear? Do you have reel-to-reel audio recording? Did your church or organization record services and meetings on audio cassette? Do you have interviews on micro audio cassettes? Did your choir make LP records of your performances?
Regardless, time marches on and times have changed – technology has leaped far ahead. Digitize Archives specializes in the art of bringing the past into the present with our audio digitization services.
Why Choose Digital Audio Formats?
There are several compelling reasons to convert your audio media to digital files.
Preservation: Analog media like cassette tapes and vinyl records are subject to wear and tear over time. By converting them to a digital format, you can safeguard these precious sounds against natural degradation, maintaining the original sound quality.
Accessibility: Transforming your audio tapes/records to digital enables easy sharing of those files. User access MP3 files can be uploaded to the web and shared.
Longevity: When you convert old cassette tapes or vinyl records to a digital format like an MP3 or WAV file, they gain longevity. Unlike magnetic tapes that degrade with each play, or vinyl records that literally wear out from the needle moving across the record time and time again, digital files retain their clarity, ensuring that your audio recording remains fresh for years to come.
Our Audio Digitization Services: Audio Transfer to Digital
At Digitize Archives, we can digitize all analog audio including audio/micro cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes and vinyl records.
We follow standards associated with preserving high quality audio when it comes to digitizing analog audio used in libraries and cultural institutions. While the standard level set by manufacturers for audio from commercial CD’s is 44 kHz sample rate and 16 bit-path, preservation quality audio digitization should use a higher sample rate and file bit-depth.
If the audio consists of human voice with no instrumental music, the recommended sample rate is 48 kHz with a bit-depth of 24. For oral history recording with music and/or sounds from nature, a sample rate of 96 kHz with a 24 bit-depth is favored. Digitize Archives offers both options saved as uncompressed WAV files.
Digitize Archives: Your Go-To for Cassette to Digital Conversion
Our process is straightforward. We create an internal record with unique identifiers upon receipt of your audio media. We then inspect and assess the condition of your material. We will provide you with an estimate and upon approval, digitize your audio files according to your specifications.
Let Digitize Archives help you transition from analog to digital, preserving your valuable and historic audio recordings in a format that stands the test of time.