Expert transfer service for Reel-to-Reel audio conversion 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 projects are higher quality and better organized – and we offer an array of advanced options you won’t find anywhere else.
- Convenience: Home and office pickups, over 50 local stores and easy shipping options.
- 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. We never ask you to do work to make our job easier, and we preserve your collection in order, as you organized it. We offer a dedicated point of contact for no charge for orders of all sizes to help you talk through the many decisions that arise.
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.
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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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.
3 Easy Ways to Work With Us
HOME PICKUPS
Too many boxes to move on your own? Complimentary home and office pickups are offered throughout the Northeast for projects over $300.
LOCAL DROP OFFS - 50+ LOCATIONS
All readily available for convenient drop-off. See which store is closest to you. Our drivers personally transport projects to our local lab for digitizing.
MAIL ORDERS
We accept mail-in orders from across the U.S. We’ll email a pre-paid UPS label or apply a shipping credit if you ship on your own.
Everything you need to know
about your Audio Reel-to-Reel project
We primarily use fully restored players from TEAC, Tascam, Sony or Otari. Our specialty is ¼ inch full and half-track open reels. This size of audio reel represents over 90% of what’s out there, and over 99% of what families and organizations have in their archives. Larger ½ inch, 1 inch and 2 inch open reels were almost exclusively used in studio production environments. The best equipment for reel-to-reel audio transfer is old equipment that must be constantly maintained and restored. We spend $1,000 to $3,000 initially on each machine and almost that much annually restoring each one.
Initially, the audio reel is examined, cleaned and set at appropriate tension for capture. Then, the reel is fed through the machine to an empty reel that captures the footage as it plays through the machine. The reel itself is played on the vintage equipment, but then connected via high-density audio cables to a pre-amp, and then into a very powerful computer. Depending on the nature of the reels, we are capturing in stereo or mono depending on the original recording style. Once the footage is on the computer, we check it for quality and produce final .mp3 files or CDs. If clients would like individual music tracks split and labeled based on the original reel-to-reel recordings, we can do that.
The improvements come after the transfer. Reel-to-reel footage suffers from inconsistent noise level, crackle and other issues. The files are initially created as an uncompressed .wav file, at which point we apply software to reduce hiss, equalize volume levels and remove crackle. It’s not a full audio restoration, but it helps a lot. At that point, our audiophile clients sometimes ask for the exports to be full .wav files, which are large and good for sound editing. But most of our clients prefer .mp3 files that work on their smartphones, or CDs to play on their home stereos.
In the grand scheme of digitizing businesses, reel-to-reel tapes are one of the rarest formats. Honestly, reel-to-reel tapes are a situation where if the price seems too good to be true, it probably is. Reels run slowly though the machines, are very finicky, use expensive equipment, and require some post-transfer work in most cases. If you see something really cheap, it means it’s a set it and forget it situation with the digitizing service. That can be OK for some formats, but not for audio reels. The other piece of this is knowing your own reels, which can be asking a lot. Many companies will just transfer at one speed and one track and that’s it. But audio reels can have four discrete tracks at different recording speeds. If you’re not careful, the digital rendering of the reel can be too slow, too fast, or just miss tracks altogether. So as you think about a service, if you know your reels have some complexity, you should confirm the digitizing process at the service can accommodate.
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- 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.
Reel-to-reel audio in action
In use since the early 1940’s, reel-to-reel audio tapes were the preferred recording method of professional artists through the 1980’s, even after cassettes became popular consumer products. Reel-to-reel recording is still used today as an alternative approach for recording artists. Like shooting film for photographers today, recording on reel-to-reel tape has revived a cult following. It’s said to have a more natural and warm sound that is hard to replicate in digital recordings. Reel-to-reel tape measures 1/4″ wide, or about twice as wide as the cassette tape, and varies in length. Because of the greater width of reel-to-reel tape, it is thought to be much higher in quality than any other recording format of its time.
These tapes often sound beautiful but they have been known to deteriorate over time. Digitizing them as soon as possible is often the best way to preserve their beautiful sound quality.
Visit one of our Northeast locations to transfer audio reels:
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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645 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02118
At Around the Corner Framing
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55 Bow Street Somerville, MA 02143
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91 Palmer Ave Falmouth, MA 02540
At Vagabond View Photography
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684 Main St Great Barrington MA 01230
At Lauren Clark Fine Art
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132 Main St Northampton, MA 01060
At R. Michelson Galleries
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58 West Main St Northborough, MA 01532
At Gaston Art & Frame
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1099 Pleasant St Worcester, MA 01602
At Gaston Art & Frame
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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
995 Farmington Ave West Hartford, CT 06107
At Frame Dimensions
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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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14A 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
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Maine
541 Congress St., Portland, ME 04101
At Mainely Frames and Gallery
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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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800 Islington St., Portsmouth, NH 03801
At SouthPort Printing
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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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New York
1021 Saratoga Rd, Ballston Lake, NY 12019
At Innerwood Gallery
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197 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
At Chelsea Frames
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361 Elwood Avenue, Hawthorne, NY 10532
At The Framing 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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121 Roanoke Ave , Riverhead, NY 11901
At The Blue door Gallery
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43 Lawton Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801
At Backstreet Gallery
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896 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10310
At R & L Press
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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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2990 Veterans Memorial Hwy Bohemia, NY 11716
At Signarama Bohemia
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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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704 Haddon Ave, Collingswood, NJ 08108
At Arts Plus Gallery
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Pennsylvania
537 Germantown Pike, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
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1234 Pine St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
At Frugal Frames
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735 Bethlehem Pike, Montgomeryville, PA 18936
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2158 W Main St, Stroudsburg, PA 18360
At Minuteman Press
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14 S. Third Street Harrisburg, PA 17101
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