Transfer Audio Cassettes to CD or Digital
ERIC, JENNIFER, & WINSTON
“Our ultimate goal is to make your best memories EverPresent in your life. Digitizing degrading photos and home movies is a necessary first step. Once your memories are safely digital, a world of searchable family archives and storytelling keepsakes are suddenly possible! We look forward to working with you.”
Why Families & Institutions Nationwide Choose EverPresent
- Value: The size of our company allows us to provide more for less. Our digitizing is higher quality and better organized – and we offer an array of advanced services you won’t find anywhere else. Our pricing is transparent and always includes 60 days of free digital downloads and sharing.
- Convenience: Home and office pickups, over 50 local stores and easy shipping options. And unlike other companies, we embrace tedious work like transcribing written labels into your USB filenames and DVD labels so you don’t have to.
- Trust: Over 50 million memories preserved, 30+ years experience, 80+ expert technicians. Alarmed, sprinklered, camera-monitored, US-based, high-tech lab. Advanced barcode tracking and email technology to keep you updated.
- Respect: No upfront payments and no rushed decisions. Deciding whether to proceed with broken tapes, or upgrade to ProResHQ archival files or restorative tape incubation can have a real budget impact. That’s why we include a free consultation after we’ve reviewed your materials to assure you pick the right options at the right price to suit your needs.
Audio Transfer Pricing
- Our team will walk you through the technical options in advance before you commit to anything. It’s free to get your materials to us for an estimate and there’s no upfront payment.
- We only charge for the work we do, not for a preset numbers of items. We don’t promote flashy discounts or expiring coupons. We offer volume discounts because it’s fair, and we apply them automatically.
- We offer the widest range of options and capabilities to assure your project gets what it needs, but out of respect for your budget, never more than it needs. In our business, one size rarely fits all (or fits in a box).
Ultimately, what we care about is helping families do this important project ONCE – and do it right the first time.
Audio CassettesFirst 10 Audio Cassettes: $25.99/tape $15.99 for tapes 11+This 40% volume discount will be applied automatically! |
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Our standard audio cassette transfer service provides excellent value for most of our clients. If you are interested in advanced digitizing or organizing options, review the “Upgrades” tab on the far right for our full suite of options.
Vinyl RecordsFirst 10 Vinyls: $25.99 $15.99 for records 11+This 40% volume discount will be applied automatically! |
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Our standard vinyl to digital service provides excellent value for most of our clients. If you are interested in advanced options to get even more out of your vinyl collection, please review the “Upgrades” tab on the far right.
Reel-to-Reel AudioStarting at $35.99 for 3" reels Save 10% on 10+ reelsThis bulk discount will be applied automatically! |
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Our standard reel-to-reel service provides excellent value for most of our clients. If you are interested in advanced options to get even more out of your vinyl collection, please review the “Upgrades” tab on the far right.
Most clients do not require these upgrades. But when you truly need to get the best out of your audio content, or you know your content is damaged or degraded, these upgrades may be considered.
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3 easy ways to work with us:
HOME PICKUPS
Home pickups are offered throughout the Northeast.
MAIL ORDERS
We accept mail-in orders from all across the US. Easy ship kits are available.
DROP OFFS
50+ satellite locations are available for convenient drop-off in ME, RI, CT, NH, VT, MA, NJ, NY, PA .
Frequently Asked Question
Most of the time it will say on the tape. If there’s no information on your audio cassette, the average audio cassette can record 30 – 60 minutes on each side.
After the audio cassette tape digital conversion, you can do so many things! Here are just a couple things we’ve seen: Use the sound from your tapes in a custom slideshow or incorporate the audio into a video editing project. Create CDs of old tapes to share with family (especially fun if you’ve recorded someone speaking). Import your new mp3 files into your iTunes library and create your own personal playlist. If you create playlists in iTunes, you can use those in Spotify also!
Audio tapes are an interesting arena for digitizing because new equipment is still being made, but the best equipment is old. For example, if you are looking to transfer simple voice or other original recordings that were not recorded with much professionalism, new machines from places like Pyle or Ion – not names you know – might suffice. But if you are dealing with music or voice audio where the quality is going to matter, you need the old decks to transfer cassettes to CD. We rely almost 100% on Nakamichi and Sony high end audio players for our digital transfer services. Beyond that, we use high quality pre-amplifiers and cables to connect to our computer environment where we optimize the digital files.
We initially transfer to a digital .wav file with near-zero compression. At that stage, we do an initial quality check and apply software filters to optimize the audio. The primary benefit is equalizing the noise levels and anti-hiss filters. For 90% of clients, the choice is a smaller .mp3 file for ease of use on a smartphone device, or a CD. At this point in the process, we export the files to the relevant format, split and label tracks if they are music, and then produce the final audio CD, USB or cloud archive.
DIY is relatively cost effective for audio tapes vs. other digitizing for a few reasons. The audio machines are cost effective as long as you are somewhat flexible on quality and don’t need the content you digitize to be perfect. And because audio files are much smaller than video files, most computers and hard drives can handle the work. So when it comes to audio cassettes, getting them digital at home is legitimately achievable as long as you don’t require perfect sound. When it comes to hiring a digitizing service, if it’s too cheap, we recommend finding someone else. Audio recordings have decayed a lot, and the purpose of using a professional transferring service is to get the most you can out of a challenging audio tape. If you see something really cheap, it means the service is not engaging the files and just doing what you’d do at home anyway. So when it comes to audio tape transfer services, we recommend going with the more sophisticated players so that your investment pays off.
Get an estimate on your Audio to Cassettes to CD conversion project!
Fill out our form or call to speak to a consultant
- Digitize Photos
- Video Transfer Services
- Slides to Digital
- Album & Scrapbook Scanning
- Film to Digital
- Audio Conversion
You’re in good hands! Our team has decades of experience turning millions of photos and videos into beautiful digital memories that you can share with others.
Visit one of our Northeast locations:
Massachusetts
56 Main Street (Rt 12) Ashburnham, MA 01430
At Creative Connections Gallery
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411 Marlborough Street Boston, MA 02115
At Stanhope Framers
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637 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02118
At Around the Corner Framing
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684 Main St Great Barrington MA 01230
At Lauren Clark Fine Art
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99 Rockingham Park Blvd. Salem, NH 03079
At Portrait Simple
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31 N. Washington St North Attleborough, MA 02760
At Preservation Framer
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Connecticut
1500 New Britain Avenue West Hartford, CT 06110
TEMPORARILY CLOSED
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899 Whalley Avenue New Haven, CT 06515
At The Frame Shop in New Haven
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576 Boston Post Road Darien, CT 06820
At Accent Picture Framing / Geary Gallery
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140 Bank Street New London, CT 06320
At Studio 33 Art & Frame Gallery
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Rhode Island
1350 Mineral Spring Avenue, North Providence, RI 02904
At Providence Picture Frame & Dryden Gallery
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18 Pier Market Pl, Narragansett, RI 02882
At Pier Picture Fine Art and Framing
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31 N. Washington St North Attleboro, MA 02760
At Preservation Framer
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Maine
New Hampshire
69 Hanover Street, Lebanon, NH 03766
At The Gilded Edge Frame Shop & Gallery
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99 Rockingham Park Blvd., Salem, NH 03079
At Portrait Simple in The Mall at Rockingham Park
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Vermont
We have five secure locations for Vermont families - one in Brattleboro and four just across the border in neighboring states.
10 Green St, Brattleboro, VT 05301
At The Vermont Center For Photography
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69 Hanover Street, Lebanon, NH 03766
At The Gilded Edge Frame Shop & Gallery
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119 Bay St, Glens Falls, NY 12801
At Saunders Gallery of Fine Art
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New York
Our original NY location 201 Broadway, Troy, NY 12180
At Clement Frame Shop & Art Gallery
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4780 Sunrise Highway, Massapequa Park, NY 11762
At Long Island Picture Frame & Art Gallery
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4 Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay, NY 11771
At Long Island Picture Frame & Art Gallery
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119 Bay St, Glens Falls, NY 12801
At Saunders Gallery of Fine Art
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696 Dutchess Turnpike, Suite D, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
At The Village Frame Shop of Poughkeepsie
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New Jersey
736 Speedwell Avenue Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950
At AlphaGraphics
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574 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444
At Framed Image
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6 N 2nd Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904
At B. Beamesderfer Gallery
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33 Watchung Plaza, Montclair, NJ 07042
At MSC Custom Picture Framing
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Pennsylvania
537 Germantown Pike, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
At The Frame Shop
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735 Bethlehem Pike, Montgomeryville, PA 18936
At Frugal Frames
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