LP to CD - Shaw Sounds audio transfer services UK

Vinyl 12" or 10" LPs �10.00 per side.

Vinyl 12" or 7" EPs �6.00 per side.

Vinyl 7" 45s �4.00 per side.

Vinyl 16" transcription discs �16.00 per side.

SHAW SOUNDS - offer a vinyl to cd transfer service, safely cleaning and transferring your records to CD.

Whatever your taste: Classical - Jazz - Pop - Folk - Opera - Light Orchestral or Spoken Word - we take care of every detail.

During conversion, individual songs or sections are identified, separated and numbered to allow each track to be accessed instantly and accurately in the same manner as a commercial disc.

As standard procedure, all crackles, clicks and surface noises are illiminated by 95% by using Cedar Audio digital restoration.

Should you need to discuss your requirements, please contact John Shaw 01708 342553

john@shawsounds.com

(All transfer prices include wet cleaning, "CEDAR" restoration & CD and Jewel case printing)

We can also transfer 16" vinyl transcription disks

Click here for the vinyl restoration demonstration

All conversions include the scanning of the record sleeve, front and back to the CD jewel case.

Severely damaged records would require manual restoration and editing attention. (costs priced per hour of work).

All turntables use high quality RIAA pre amplifiers and 929 tone arms that are fitted with either moving coil or moving magnet cartridges.

These are manufactured by: EMT, Ortofon, Shure and Stanton.

EMT TSD -15 "Fineline" moving coil cartridge

VINYL STATISTICS

The first long-playing records were made in 1904, 10" shellac discs that played for 12 minutes at 78rpm.

In June 1948, American Columbia issued the first 33rpm LP records (10" & 12"). Decca issued the first LPs on the UK market in June 1950.

The earliest LP recording to sell a million copies was the 1949 version of Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! The first classical LP to sell a million was Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1.

In the 1950s LPs in the UK cost around �2.

In 1962 the last 78s were withdrawn from British catalogues.

Compact discs were launched in October 1982. Ten years later, LP production ceased.