Your Vintage Recording Can Be Transferred to CD
Musicians and producers discovered Om Recording Studio’s cache of rare tube and early solid state equipment in the years before the cost of esoteric microphones and processors became out of reach for all but the top recording acts. The recordings range from live 2-track transcriptions to masters mixed from the 8– and 16-track working tapes. Recordings of the day eventually ended up as 45s or record albums, or in some cases, compact cassettes. The 2-track master tapes from these projects have been lovingly stored in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment, some for almost 30 years. Those tapes can be transferred to CD with the same SPL, TL Audio and Apogee mastering equipment used by such prestigious production facilities as Abbey Road Studios in England, The hidden brilliance of these original recordings becomes evident when transferred from analog to digital through some of the best audio equipment available today.
Since 1976 Om Recording Studio has used some of the finest equipment to capture the talent of musicians from the upper Midwest. Neumann and Telefunken tube microphones, RCA ribbons and processing equipment from UREI, Lexicon and Eventide Clockworks. Those recordings from the late 1970s through the early 1990s are available for digital remastering. We have restored the 2-track recorder used to make the original recordings so they are reproduced with the utmost precision. We then employ the same equipment used in the finest digital mastering facilities in the world to transfer these recordings to CD.
Affordable Digital Mastering
Om Recording Studio wants to re-release these sonic gems in a modern digital
format that can be enjoyed by all. Our “Red Book” CDs will reproduce the
splendor of the original analog recording that may have been lost in cassette
copies or buried on a vinyl disk that can’t easily be reproduced. Our English
tube equalizers, German enhancers and Apogee state-of-the-art 24-bit, 96-Khz
digital to analog converters provide a most satisfying replica of the original
performance. The transfer process can be surprisingly affordable.
Tape Condition Evaluated
All magnetic recordings deteriorate with age. This process is accelerated
with poor storage climate. While the reel-to-reel tapes have been stored in
ideal conditions, some show signs of flaking and shedding. In some cases it is
necessary to “restore” your tape before it is ready to be copied. Each tape is
evaluated for playability prior to the transcription phase. Any tape that
requires extensive restoration will be designated as such and the owner so
advised. We have perfected a tape restoration process that requires no baking or
chemical additives, just patience. An estimate of what this process will cost is
provided before any work commences.