Compact Cassette Transfer to file or CD

2-Track cassettes

The Audio Compact Cassette was invented in 1962 by Philips and was commercially released the following year. It is a magnetic tape recording format, which due to its small size and ease of use, very soon overtook open-reel tape as the consumer’s choice for home recording.

Compact Cassettes were never intended as long-term audio storage devices, given the relative fragility of magnetic tape, and its susceptibility to strong magnetic fields. With this in mind, your valuable recordings deserve to be digitised now, before it is too late. They will certainly not improve with age!

Cassette to CD transfers are performed using Tascam 122 decks  decks, allowing for all Dolby noise reduction options – B, C ensuring ‘hiss’ (the most commonly encountered problem with tapes) is reduced/removed during the transfer to digital process. In addition, cassettes that were encoded with dbx type 1 NR are catered for using an standalone dbx 150 type 1 noise reduction unit.

Individual tracks (where appropriate) are separated to give full track skip/search functions. CD text and on-CD printing are added for convenience, and your disc is returned to you in a clear, flexible vinyl sleeve. Alternatively, digitised recordings can be returned on customer-supplied memory stick or external hard-drive if preferred.

Cassette tapes come in various lengths, commonly 60 mins (C60), 90 mins (C90) and 120 mins (C120), although other lengths are sometimes encountered. A C60 cassette will comfortably transfer to a single CD (max 80 mins), whilst full C90 and C120 tapes will exceed the capacity of a single CD, so will be transferred onto two CDs.

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Tapes per side £12-18

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