Oxford Duplication Centre
Professional Audio Tape Transfer & Digitisation
Specialist audio-visual services for personal, corporate, heritage and broadcast archives — from a single tape to large-scale archive ingestion projects.
PROFESSIONAL AUDIO DIGITISATION
Experienced Audio Preservation Specialists
Our award-winning audio studio supports clients from a single audio tape through to substantial archives requiring professional ingestion. We use professional equipment from Tascam, Sony and Revox to provide exceptionally high-quality audio outputs.
We maintain a carefully serviced collection of professional equipment for the transfer of fragile magnetic audio tape. Digital files are produced in line with the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives guidelines for the production and preservation of digital audio objects.
We can provide output to WAV, WAVE, Broadcast BWF, AIFF, MP3 or CD, from 16-bit 44.1 kHz CD quality through to 24-bit 192 kHz production files.
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Professional Audio Preservation
Specialist equipment and experienced technicians
for fragile and historic recordings.
WHY CHOOSE ODC
Professional care for valuable recordings
From individual family recordings to substantial heritage, corporate and commercial archives, we provide a careful and professional digitisation service.
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Professional equipment
Tascam, Sony and Revox systems for specialist audio transfers.
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Archive-quality output
High-resolution WAV, BWF and other professional formats to suit your project.
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Single tapes to archives
Suitable for private collections, heritage organisations and commercial archives.
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Specialist tape care
Experience with fragile media, tape baking and damaged tape re-assembly.
Audio Tape Price List
Corporate, Heritage & Consumer Audio Tape Price List
Cassettes • Reel-to-Reel • Studio Masters • MiniDiscs • DAT • ADAT • Professional Multitrack
Output: WAV / WAVE / Broadcast BWF / AIFF / MP3 / CD
16-bit 44.1 kHz (CD) • 24-bit 96 kHz Archive File • 24-bit 192 kHz Production File*
* Digital output files above 24-bit 96 kHz incur an additional charge of £8.00 per output.
| Format / Service | 1+ | 10+ | 25+ | 50+ | 100+ |
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| Optical Discs / Tapes — Cost per Tape | |||||
| Digital Audio MiniDisc | £35.00 | £32.50 | £30.00 | £27.50 | £25.00 |
| Compact Disc (CD) | £10.00 | £8.00 | £6.00 | £4.00 | £2.00 |
| ADAT / DAT Tapes — Cost per Tape | |||||
| ADAT (Alesis Digital Tape) 8-Track | £70.00 | £67.50 | £65.00 | £62.50 | £60.00 |
| DAT (Digital Audio Tape) 2-Track Stereo | £40.00 | £37.50 | £35.00 | £32.50 | £30.00 |
| Cassettes, Dictaphone, Mini & Micro Tapes — Cost per Tape | |||||
| Cassettes — up to 60 mins | £26.00 | £24.00 | £22.00 | £20.00 | £18.00 |
| Cassettes — 90 mins | £28.00 | £26.00 | £24.00 | £22.00 | £20.00 |
| Cassettes — 120 mins | £30.00 | £28.00 | £26.00 | £24.00 | £22.00 |
| 1/4" Domestic Reel-to-Reel — Cost per Reel | |||||
| 3" Domestic reel to reel | £30.00 | £28.00 | £26.00 | £24.00 | £22.00 |
| 5" Domestic reel to reel | £35.00 | £32.50 | £30.00 | £27.50 | £25.00 |
| 7" Domestic reel to reel | £40.00 | £37.50 | £35.00 | £32.50 | £30.00 |
| Tape baking or damaged tape re-assembly per unit — if required | £5.00 | — | — | — | — |
| Domestic spool diameters are 3.25", 5" and 7" with recording speeds of either 1 7/8 ips, 3 3/4 ips or 7 1/2 ips and usually quarter-track (4 track) mono or stereo. | |||||
| 1/4" Half / 2-Track Services — Per Reel | |||||
| 2-track studio master professional tape 7" | £30.00 | £28.00 | £26.00 | £24.00 | £22.00 |
| 2-track studio master professional tape 10.5" | £40.00 | £38.00 | £36.00 | £34.00 | £32.00 |
| Prices include baking. Spool diameters are 7" and 10.5" half-track (2-track) stereo running at 15 ips or 30 ips. | |||||
| 1/4" Multi-Track Services — Per Reel | |||||
| 4-track professional tape 10.5" | £50.00 | £45.00 | £40.00 | £35.00 | £30.00 |
| 8-track professional tape 10.5" | £60.00 | £55.00 | £50.00 | £45.00 | £40.00 |
| Prices include baking. | |||||
| 1/2" Multi-Track Services — Per Reel | |||||
| 1/2 inch 2-track professional tape | £60.00 | £55.00 | £50.00 | £45.00 | £40.00 |
| 1/2 inch 4-track professional tape | £70.00 | £65.00 | £60.00 | £55.00 | £50.00 |
| 1/2 inch 8-track professional tape | £80.00 | £75.00 | £70.00 | £65.00 | £60.00 |
| 1/2 inch 16-track professional tape | £100.00 | £95.00 | £90.00 | £85.00 | £80.00 |
| Prices include baking. | |||||
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1/4" 2-Track Stereo Master Reels
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1/4" 4-Track Professional Reels
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1/4" 8-Track Professional Reels
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1/2" 2-Track Professional Reels
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1/2" 4-Track Professional Reels
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1/2" 8-Track Professional Reels
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1/2" 16-Track Professional Reels
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1" 16-Track Professional Reels
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Compact Cassette Tapes C30–60–80–120
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Mini & Micro Tapes
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Alesis ADAT Tape Transfer to WAV
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Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
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Grundig Stenorette Audio Reels
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Sony MiniDiscs
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Vinyls, LPs & Shellac Records
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Tape Baking — Sticky Shed Syndrome
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I’ve called on Cheryl & the team at ODC time and time again, whenever we’ve needed fast and reliable services. The communication is always brilliant and many times they’ve gone the extra mile, delivering promptly on tight deadlines at our end. Will not hesitate to reach out to Oxford Duplication Centre in the future.— Workerbee Castings
Oxford Duplication Centre provide a great service, bringing historical motorsport video we had sat in our archive back to life. The team kept us updated regularly and our valuable archive material was in good hands throughout. Thank you to Cheryl and the team.— Motorsport UK
ODC handles our digitisation orders in a friendly, knowledgeable, and professional way.— Oxford University Press
Digitising Documents
Working with clients across the UK, we digitise corporate, consumer and heritage document, book and map archives into suitable digital files for online use.
Our Bookeye A1 Book Scanner offers high-resolution planetary scanning for fragile books, rare maps, parchment and materials up to DIN A1+.
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Digitising Photo Film
Our archive department is equipped with leading photographic film and photograph machinery, ensuring consistent, high-quality digitisation across film formats from 110mm through to glass plate negatives.
Adhering to The National Archives specifications, our services provide leading-quality digitisation with complete confidence.
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Digitising Audio & Video
Working with leading AWS and Blackmagic conversion processors, our services incorporate audio, video, vinyl and reel formats in both open-spool and closed-tape formats.
Digital files can be supplied in formats including ProRes HQ, 10-bit AVI, MPEG-4, AIFF, WAV and MP3, with most other options available upon request.
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Cherwell Business Awards
We were thrilled to be recognised as a winner at the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2024. The standard of entries was exceptionally high, making this recognition particularly meaningful to our team.
We were also winners of the Cherwell Micro Business Awards 2022 and finalists in the Cherwell Small Business Awards 2023.
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