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Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
I am looking to take some old 2" 24 track analogue tapes and get them converted (as is - no treatments) to digital multitrack at 24bit 88k/96k. - I am not bothered if it is aif/wav but ideally they could be bundled as cakewalk projects.
Can anyone recommend a facility that can provide these services at a reasonable price?
I have 4 songs ( so about 20minutes max) of 24 track 2" tape to convert.
London UK and surroundings only
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 07:18:45
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Well within London, Kensal Road would be a good place to start , in Ladbroke grove.. esp. the canalot building or theres another place, the saga centre.
try some mastering places. hhm porkies if they are still around , but they are in the west end.. just an idea.
Most studios I know that use that either run pro tools or logic or cubase that had that setup.
I would have a look for local studios though, see if they can sort it for you.
did you try putting an advert on gumtree?
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 07:21:44
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did you try putting an advert on gumtree?
not yet - discussed remixing this session with the band while we were away playing in Greece over the weekend - got back at silly o'clock this morning and come into the day job office, supposed to be working but want to get my teeth into the next project
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 07:39:47
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I rang up someone.. and they don't have their machine any more, but he said a mastering place would do it. Probably the best place, as well the maintenance on them machines, some don't look after them.
theres metropolis in chiswick and there is a vinyl cutting place in errm hayes that might do it.
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 07:49:36
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theres metropolis in chiswick and there is a vinyl cutting place in errm hayes that might do it.
Thanks for the tips - I'll see if I might get my Google working......
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 07:59:43
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:03:21
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:06:12
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I asked someone else I know, so I'll post if they get back to me. She works for a video conversion place, she might know of places or they might do audio conversion.. not sure.. edit : they do audio conversion also.. them lot are based in errm scrubs lane / wood lane. dunno if you know where the pavillion pub is? just around the corner from there, they are gonna get back to me later.. but she wanted to know your first name.. I said I dunno.. I think it's Twig   or is it Ian.. jeez I'm bad with names
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:16:40
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:17:11
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:20:04
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can't PM you coz ya box is full - you got my name right - well remembered and thanks for going out of your way!!
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:22:27
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done.. ya can email me if you wanted.. errm I can't recommend anyone though as I've never used them.. I said you wanted to bounce it to a hard drive.. or dvd I guess. not sure how many tracks you could put on a disk.
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:28:34
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done.. ya can email me if you wanted.. errm I can't recommend anyone though as I've never used them.. I said you wanted to bounce it to a hard drive.. or dvd I guess. not sure how many tracks you could put on a disk.
DVD ideally maybe a DVD per song - not sure how large 24 tracks @ 24bit 96k 4 minute song might take: 24bit x 96000 - 2304000 bits per second - 288000 bytes per second - 281.25kb/s say 4 minutes = 240 seconds = 67500 kb per track = 1620000 kb per song = 1582 mb per song = 1.54 Gb per song. So yeah 1 DVD per song would be good.
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 08:35:58
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well she'll get back to me later and tell me a price I guess.
I caught my friend (not V) on lunch .. I'd get a few quotes though.. I dunno if that vinyl place in hayes was cheaper
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/28 11:37:32
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no joy with the video conversion place (I'd thought they'd have contacts).. so I guess either a mastering place or a studio that uses that format. Although after speaking to a few people they flogged their 24/2" machines , due to the cost of maintaining them etc.
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/30 07:51:37
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/30 08:05:58
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ah i forgot about fx rentals as I know em.. opps a friend used to use em to hire samplers off for a few projects good to hear your getting it sorted.. thats Acton sides? I spend a fair bit of time there as Digital Village is there. hehe
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RE: Recommend me a 2" 24track to digital conversion facility in London
2009/04/30 08:35:44
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24bit x 96000 - 2304000 bits per second - 288000 bytes per second - 281.25kb/s
say 4 minutes = 240 seconds = 67500 kb per track = 1620000 kb per song
= 1582 mb per song = 1.54 Gb per song. Don't you just love google?  24 * 96000 /8 *240 /1024 *24 kilobytes in gigabyte (= 1.54495239 gigabyte)
I'm a perfectionist, and perfect is a skinned knee.
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