[AV Media Matters] 24-track Dolby A to 24 bit WAV files--where?

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A musician friend has some Ampex Grand Master 2-inch 24 track Dolby A tapes
that were recorded in the late '70's or early 80's. I'm not sure of the
quantity nor the speed--but I don't think there are too many--perhaps a few
albums' worth, and I'd suspect 15 or 30 ips. So we need to add baking to
the list of services.

Anyway, he's become involved with doing his own computer mixing and would
love to get the stuff off these tapes into preferably 24 bit WAV files at
an unspecified sample rate. I guess 96ks/s would be great. I don't know if
he was thinking of going that high.

Anyway, who can do this to help him? I just did a 16/44.1 transfer of one
of his wife's albums from the 15ips Dolby A 1/4-inch 2 track.
Interestingly, when I normalized the album to 0dBfs, the peaks of the noise
on the recorded tape were -57dBFS.

So any of you know who might be able to do this? I guess he can worry about
synching them up.

Oh, and while we're at it, I'll try one more time--anyone want to do the
same thing (20/48 would be OK for this) with dbx Type I on a one-inch
8-track? Baking probably needed.

So how much would all this cost?

Private replies please to richard@richardhess.com

Thanks!

Richard

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