Ken has a wide range of experience in the preservation of audio and image materials from tape to CDs. He is a professionally qualified Museum Curator and a pioneer oral historian.  He is BBC Radio trained and was the founder and Director of the North West of England Sound Archive (a local government organisation) until taking early retirement. He has over 30 years experience dealing with audio and related media.

 

A wide range of older equipment is needed to transfer audio to Gold Standard 'Archive' CD.  Reel to reel tape recorders are now rare beasts, and DAT recorders even more so.  Even the humble tape cassette recorder is an endangered species and Minidisc has all but gone too.  Powerful computers are used to record the audio signal from its original source, then it is checked and any restoration to the audio signal carried out.  From there the audio is transferred to a high-quality transcription audio CD recorder of far higher specification than computer CD/DVD burn drives thus ensuring maximum integrity.

The highest quality packaging and storage materials are also used from recognised museum and archive conservation suppliers ensuring as long a life as possible for your recordings.