Cassette Audio Tape to CD Transfer
State of the art audio processing to restore the degrading effects of your aging cassette audio tapes.
High quality for the right price, done right the first time.
HomeDVD will restore your valued audio cassette tape content to allow convenient playback on any standard CD or DVD player
“Thank you for helping me to salvage my grandfather and mothers music! It means so much to me.”
— Peg M.Cassette to CD transfer summary
- WAV, MP3 or Red Book CD-Audio encoding options—standard
- Just $29.95 per cassette, $45 minimum
- Recording of both sides of the cassette—any length
- Free: encode to any other readily available audio CODEC
- Free: standard low-pass audio filtering and basic EQ on cassette tracks
- Optional: professional digital signal processing (DSP) to clean up tape "noise"
- DSP services as low as $45 / hour of labour
- Burned to industrial grade CDR media
- Photo publishing to CDR disk surface—title and track identification
- Optional: track cutting for easier faster selection upon playback—$3.00 per cut
- Optional: Archival Gold CD publishing for more robust and reliable operation over time
- Copies just $9.95 per disc
How much it costs
We charge $29.95 per cassette (both sides), minimum $45.00 per job, to have your cassette audio tapes digitized to any number of high-quality CD audio formats. The audio contents of your cassette tapes will be transferred to CD media as a continuous single track in either standard CD Audio (Red Book) format, MP3 audio format, or WAV audio format. If you wish, we can manually create individual tracks from your audio cassette tape contents at an extra charge of $3.00 per cut.
Audio cassette tape conversion details
We will convert your audio tape cassettes to CD in either CD-Audio, MP3 audio or to PCM WAV audio encoded format. For listening purposes, choosing CD-Audio or MP3 conversions are a great first choice as there are many portable players available supporting this format. Alternatively, if editing is your goal, choosing the established WAV audio format (PCM 16bit, 44.1Kb/s sampling and 2 Channel stereo) works very well. Following your editing session, you can compress to either MP3 audio, AC-3 Dolby audio, Windows Media Audio or any of the other popular audio CODECs available to you from either an internet download or a retail purchase. All computer based natively installed audio players whether you have a MAC or Windows based machine, will playback WAV, MP3 or CD-Audio encoded material at a minimum.
As part of your audio cassette to CD transfer, consider having any time induced tape hiss or other undesirable noises reduced or just outright eliminated from your digitiized audio tracks. We use state of the art digital signal processing or DSP techniques to identify, analyze and act on those affected sound tracks. Broadband audio noise, tape hiss, rumble, hum or the more difficult non-periodic noises can be reduced or removed, isolating the desired audio tape content from the annoying background distractions. The added step of frequency equalization adjustments or EQ, will make your aged audio tracks come to life. The resulting digitized audio tracks will be quieter, brighter and fuller sounding.
As an additional option, your cassette tape to CD transfers can be published to archival grade Gold CDR media ensuring longer term storage and a more reliable playback experience of your audio memories.
All audio cassette to CD conversions include processing both sides of the tape at one low price.
Important options
Archival Gold CD discs
add $7.00 / disc
Instead of using standard CD-R discs, we can burn your project onto Archival Gold CD-R discs. These discs are the latest in archival quality media and use 24 karat gold as the reflective layer, offering maximum resistance to chemical breakdown—one of the major causes of disc failure.
Tracks
$3.00 per track
By creating tracks, you can skip from song to song independently using the Next button on your CD player, or simply to know which song is currently playing. If you do not provide us a list of corresponding track titles, we will number the tracks (Track 1, Track 2, etc) instead.
Extra copies
add $9.95 / disc
Each extra copy is fully packaged just like the one included with your order. If you would like to have the copies burned onto Archival Gold CD-R discs, add another $7.00 per disc.
How long it takes
Our goal is to complete reel-to-reel audio transfer jobs within 3 weeks upon receipt of order. For larger jobs, please allow more time. The actual delivery date can be narrowed down when we have discussed your order details. For rush orders (7 days or less), expect a 25% surcharge on the value of the entire order.
Payment and shipping options
We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Interac. Cash and cheques accepted on location only.
Shipping methods include UPS, FedEx and Canada Post. Our shipping kit service is designed with UPS as the carrier.
What you get from your audio transfer
Audio on CD
You will get your reel audio tape transferred onto CD-R discs (as many as necessary) in either high-quality standard CD Audio Red Book format, MP3 audio format, or WAV audio format.
Audio Filtering
We apply rudimentary filtering (audio equalization) but no specialized signal processing to your audio unless otherwise requested. Extra costs are incurred to have our DSP techniques applied to your audio tracks if requested.
Satisfaction guarantee
Our ultimate goal is to make sure that you're happy with your reel to reel audio transfer—making sure that you don't lose precious memories to the normal decay of analog media.
If you have problems with your CD's, we will make every attempt to resolve them. Simply send us your CD's with a note explaining the problem. If it has been determined that the problem originates with HomeDVD, we will do our utmost to resolve it at no charge to you (we'll also pay for shipping if applicable).
