MiniDisc & DAT audio preservationUK based · Established 2018
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Obsolete format.
Important recording.

Specialist transfer of MiniDisc and DAT to high-quality digital files. From the only surviving master to a complete archive.

Transferred with care
Sony MiniDisc photographed on a pale blue surface

MiniDisc

Sessions, interviews and the recordings in between.

£13 per discExplore MiniDisc
Digital Audio Tape photographed at an angle

DAT

Original masters, broadcast tapes and archive collections.

£16 per tapeExplore DAT
Optical media in your archive?CD audio & data transfer — £13 per disc ↗

Preservation,
access and reuse.

Recover source material for production, remastering, reissue and archive assessment.

The only copy

Protect an original master, demo or one-off recording that may exist nowhere else.

Session tapes

Bring live sessions, studio takes and production recordings into a modern workflow.

Backups

Create digital copies you can store in more than one place, independent of ageing playback equipment.

Remaster & reissue

Recover source recordings for restoration, remastering, compilation or release.

Archive discovery

Find out what is on unlabelled tapes. Identify and catalogue recordings to help assess an archive’s value.

Access

Listen, share and work with your recordings again, without a MiniDisc or DAT machine.

Archiving audio since 2018.

Experience with broadcasters, composers, rights holders and organisations including British Airways (BA) and IMG.

“Job done as requested, perfectly. I was sent a link to download the transferred DAT and now listen to it and re-master it for the first time in 32 years!”

Tim