Steve Puntolillo at Sonicraft is the first place I would go. First of all, they are careful people and will set their machines up properly for your tapes. If your tapes have tones, they will line them up, if they don't they will set the azimuth by ear. And then they are able to do clean unattended transfers which will cost you less than having an attended transfer done.
If you have 3 3/4 ips tapes, likely they were made on consumer machines which might be quarter-track instead of normal professional half-track configuration and they can identify those and make sure they have the right headstack in the machine. I can do transfers like this but I'll charge a whole lot more money because I have one machine that will need to be reconfigured for every different format and then re-aligned at the end for normal studio configuration and every time I do that you pay for the time. If you send it to someone like Sonicraft that specializes in the work, they can do it faster and that means doing it cheaper because they have machines already configured and they don't need to be swapping heads and speed control boards all the time. If you think there is ANY chance that any of these tapes have center track pilot tone or timecode, warn the transfer guy in advance and make sure he has a machine with nagratone heads so he can pull the synch signal off. --scott _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
