Corey Bailey
Audio Engineering
LINKS
DISASTER RECOVERY
https://amianet.org/resources/general-resources/
AMIA: Association of Moving Image Archivists
A wealth of information here, starting with some excellent articles on disaster recovery.
http://www.specsbros.com
SPECS Bros. specialize in the decontamination and restoration of audio and videotape.
Besides offering transfer services, there is a lot of information here.
https://www.documentreprocessors.com/drying-project-mamagent
Document Repoocessors specialize in the recovery of all types of media.
The link above is to the Audio & Video tape area of their website.
TRANSFER SERVICES
https://www.arsc-audio.org/audiopreservation.html
This is the the services directory of the membership of the
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).
This is a downloadable PDF file. You should be able to find someone
reasonably nearby who can help with your family recordings.
USEFUL INFORMATION
http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/
The Library of Congress Division of Recorded Sound.
A wonderful example of our taxpayer dollars at work.
You can spend hours here as the information is almost endless.
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/
Another example of our taxpayer dollars at work is the National Archives.
Here you can learn how to preserve everything from photographs to audio recordings.
http://www.richardhess.com/tape/index.htm
Richard Hess is a well known, published authority on the preservation & restoration
of all sorts of magnetic media. His site is a wealth of information.
Anyone who makes it through all of the information here should receive college credit.
Richard Hess’s Audio Tape Degradation page is here:
https://tinyurl.com/y6ho47eg
http://www.tangible-technology.com/
Eddie Ciletti is a technical consultant who writes for several publications.
This is his site and it is jam-packed with information.
Check out his writings on audio tape decks and baking tape.
ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND GLOSSARIES
https://bavc.github.io/avaa/
The “Artifact Atlas” was originally hosted by Stanford University.
Now it is hosted by
Github
. You can look at video artifacts and listen to all manner of
Analog and Digital Audio anomalies.
http://www.wikipedia.org/
This is Wikipedia, the online searchable encyclopedia.
I have some friends in academia who look down their nose at Wikipedia because
information can be posted here before being peer-reviewed. However, the information
does eventually get peer-reviewed, and the mature technology I’m usually searching for is
already well documented.
SOME PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT I USE
Disclaimer; I do not receive any compensation, products or services from any of the
vendors listed or linked here. This also includes elsewhere on this site.
http://www.bagsunlimited.com
I use them for record and audio tape supplies. As the name implies, there much is more.
http://discdoc.com/
I have tried them all (I think) which includes concocting all of the DIY solutions I could find.
The products from The Disc Doctor work as well or better than anything I have tried.
http://www.esotericsound.com/
Supplier of everything that has to do with records.
http://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?/
KAB is another supplier of everything that has to do with records including
custom rebuilding of Techniques turntables.
http://thelastfactory.com/
The Last Factory makes products for analog tape as well as records.
http://www.squeakycleanvinyl.com/
Here is a vacuum operated record cleaning machine that uses your wet/dry shopvac, if
you have one. It is very affordable and works surprisingly well. I have my own setup using
this equipment and there are links to this site elsewhere on this website.
https://www.splicit.com/default.asp
Audio tape supplies.
http://usrecordingmedia.com/
Audio tape (including MRL test tapes) and record supplies.
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