Welcome to Musical Cocktails' Digital Editing,
CD Mastering and Audio Transfer Services
Our premises in north west London, are fully equipped with excellent engineers, high resolution digital editing
systems and professional monitoring systems.
We offer editing and mastering services to any level. Whether you simply require a master tape transferred onto
CD, a demo recording compiled or full production editing and mastering for commercial release, you will find
our highest level of service available, however big or small the job in hand.
please click on the links below for full details of the services offered.
| Digital Editing | Audio Mastering |
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Our comprehensive range of services includes:
- Full Digital Editing & CD Mastering
- Editing from score
- Compilation
- PQ encoding / CD text editing
- Sound restoration (available for Vinyl/ Reel to Reel, damaged and legal recordings)
- Remastering service (makes use of the latest advances in digital audio to achieve
the highest quality available from an existing recording.)
We pride ourselves on choosing just the right audio equipment to keep your audio quality at it’s very best.
Our studio is equipped to a world class level and we cater for all digital and analogue formats including:
- Hard Disk / MO disk (up to 24bit 192kHz)
- DAT, (16bit 44.1kHz, 48kHz)
- CD / CD-R
- Minidisc
- Tascam DA88 series (16bit - 24bit multitrack or stereo master)
- Analogue ¼ inch / mono / stereo master tapes running at 7.5ips and 15ips, (¼ inch 30 ips and 1/2 inch tapes*)
- Vinyl records running at 33, 45 and 78rpm
- Cassette tapes
* By prior arrangement
If you require a recording format that is not currently listed please get in touch as we can easily accommodate
other formats as required. click here to contact us
Pricing:
| Audio Editing / Mixing / CD Mastering | Pricing |
|---|---|
| Audio Copies, Compilations | £45 / per hour |
| Digital Editing, Enhancing and CD Mastering | £55 / per hour |
| Sound Restoration and Remastering from Analogue Recordings | £65 / per hour |
As there are so many recording formats out there, it is not unusual for a recording to be on the wrong format or in
the wrong file type for a given project. We hold numerous digital and analogue formats in our studio and technical
centre and can source equipment to transfer your audio to a preferred format or file type with or without audio
processing, PQ Coding, ABS Time or Timecode Striping. We can provide a straight transfer or incorporate your
transfer into a full restoration, digital editing or mastering project.
Additionally we offer tape baking facilities in special incubator / ovens for reel to reel tapes that have been in
long-term storage and we have restoration facilities for tapes that may have been subjected to flooding, or lived in
damp and mouldy conditions, very often the tape has survived inside and some if not all audio can be resurrected.
some standard services are listed below with prices, you may also like to get in touch to discuss your audio
project requirements. click here to contact us
Pricing:
| Audio Format Transfer | Transfer Details (Options) | Pricing |
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| Digital Stereo | ||
| DAT - Minidisc | (AES, SPDIF) | £45 / per hour required |
| DAT - CD | (AES, SPDIF - scms copy protection options available) | £45 / per hour required |
| DAT - DAT | (AES, SPDIF - IEC958 for broadcast or consumer standards) | £45 / per hour required |
| CD - Minidisc | (AES, SPDIF) | £45 / per hour required |
| CD - CD or DAT | (AES, SPDIF - scms copy protection options available) | £45 / per hour required |
| Minidisc - CD, DAT or Minidisc | (AES, SPDIF) | £45 / per hour required |
| Digital Multitrack | Transfer Details (Options) |
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| Tascam DA88 series (8 track Hi8, 16-24bit) | transfer to DA88 series, ADAT, ADATXT | £50 / per hour required |
| ADAT (8 track SVHS) | transfer to DA88 series, ADAT, ADATXT | £50 / per hour required |
| ADATXT20 (8 track, 20 bit) | transfer to DA88 series, ADAT, ADATXT | £50 / per hour required |
| Digital Computer Based | ||
| File conversion is available between the following types: | PMF, SD2, AIFF, AVI, WAV, BWF, OMF, MP3 | £50 / per hour required |
| All Digital Stereo and Multitrack Above to the following file types: | PMF, SD2, AIFF, AVI, WAV, BWF, OMF, MP3 | £55 / per hour required |
| (Systems Supported: Pyramix, Augan OMX) | ||
| Analogue Mono / Stereo & Multitrack | ||
| Cassette Stereo - Digital Stereo formats | (includes CD, DAT, Minidisc with creation of track timing data) | £45 / per hour required |
| Cassette Multitrack - Any above format | (Tascam / Yamaha format supported) | £50 / per hour required |
| 1/4" Mono / Stereo - Digital Stereo format | (Studer machines are used) | £50 / per hour required |
| 1/4" with Timecode - Timecode DAT | (Studer and Sony machines are used) | £55 / per hour required |
| Vinyl 78, 33, 45 rpm - Digital Stereo | (full restoration facilities are also available, click here for details) | £45 / per hour required |
| We continuously add to the formats supported by investing in carefully chosen machines. If a format is not currently listed please contact us as any format can usually be accommodated with prior booking | ||
We offer restoration facilities that include manual cleaning and treatment of old records and tapes together with
digital signal processing to remove any sound artefacts from the original recording. We use specialist amplifiers
and dCs Convertors for Analogue - Digital, Digital - Digital and Digital - Analogue conversion. CEDAR Audio
products are used for the restoration processes.
Please see below for some
of the treatments we can offer. You may also like to click here to see our Forensic Audio section.
- Declicking - this is a relatively simple process that removes clicks and scratches from the original recording
- Decrackle - this is the most successful solution for removing crackle, buzz, surface noise and distortion
- Dehiss - for general noise reduction from tape
- Debuzz - ideal for hums and buzzes that have multiple harmonics to the signal, e.g. camera noise and eliminating power supply hums
| Sound Restoration and Remastering | Pricing |
|---|---|
| Sound Restoration and Remastering from Analogue Recordings - | £65 / per hour |
| Vinyl 78, 33, 45 rpm, 1/4" tape Mono / Stereo formats supported. These can be presented on any supported analogue or digital format. |