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The quality of the sound you get from your precious vinyl depends upon the quality of the source. The ultimate source are the grooves within the vinyl and these need to be as clean as possible. The only cleaners that work are wet/vacuum cleaners. Dry cleaners just move the dirt from one place to another and cannot do anything about ingrained grime and grease in the grooves. Wet cleaners by themselves can be even worse as they just turn grime into mud which sticks in the grooves. In order to remove the accumulation of many years requires a solvent and detergent to loosen the stuff and then a vacuum pump to suck it out of the grooves while it is loose. That is exactly the process we use.
If you want to transfer a recording to CD then you need ensure that you use the absolutely best turntable, arm, stylus, power supply, phono preamp and preamp stages. Using a cheap USB turntable will just not do the recording justice. Fundamentally the grooves of the record contain information, lots of information, in fact lots and lots of information. To give you an idea of how much data this is, if you record at 24 bits 96,000Hz then a typical 40 minute record will occupy around 1.4Gb. Now remember by definition digitalisation involves throwing information away in the sampling process and you begin to realise how much information there is to be extracted. Using a cheap turntable is like trying to take photos using a cheap disposable camera with a piece of sticky tape over the lens. You might get the general idea of what the landscape looks like but there will be no detail. Using our front end we ensure that we get as much information as possible. Our front end is so good that it clearly shows up the standard of production in a recording and you can clearly tell if the mixing desk is analogue or digital.
We capture the recording in our Apple hardware and associated software. The best recording software is available on Apple computers which is one reason they are used by more video and audio studios than PCs.
We also apply sophisticated digital processing to the recording to clean up the clicks and pops with the result that you can genuinely get a result which sounds better than the orginal scratched record.
If you send us an email at andrew@lprevivalist.com with SAMPLE as the subject we will send you a short 30 second sample of a compressed AAC file of our work and that we have produced using a typical cheap USB turntable. It is not feasible to send an uncompressed file as they are many megabytes even for a short sample, however even with a compressed file the difference is very obvious.
LP Revivalist is the holder of a Casual Reproduction licence (issued by the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners'Society) which allows LP Revivalist to transfer audio tracks for the purposes of providing a format shifting service to our clients. The licence covers musical works and associated literary works for which AMCOS is entitled to grant a licence (AMCOS Works). LP Revivalist's licence allows it to provide format shifting services only where the the source AMCOS Work that LP Revivalist copies to provide the format shifting service is of a recording of the AMCOS Work that is owned and legitimately purchased by the LP Revivalist client for whom LP Revivalist is providing the format shifting service.
Furthermore we can only provide the format shifting service to you if the format you are requesting is not available commercially in Australia or for delivery to Australia. Thus if you wish to have an LP converted to CD then it must not be available on CD in Australia from retailers or distributors (including online retailers operating in Australia such as Chaos Music) or available from online retailers and distributors located overseas but which deliver to Australia such as Amazon. Similarly if you wish to have an LP converted to digital format such as FLAC, AAC or MP3 then we can only do this for you if the recording is not available on iTunes Australia or other such services authorised to operate in Australia.
The restrictions above may not apply if:
* the copyrights in the sound recording, each piece of music and the lyrics have expired;
* you are the owner of the copyright in the sound recording, piece of music or the lyrics of the piece of music you wish to have copied; or
* you have obtained permission from the copyright owner to copy the sound recording, music or lyrics or procure format shifting services from a third party supplier.
Given the scope of LP Revivalist’s licence, you should satisfy yourself that you are entitled to request LP Revivalist to provide format shifting services to you. Accordingly, when placing your order:
* you warrant that the recording is not available commercially in the format that you are requesting;
* you warrant that you are authorised to copy the AMCOS Work, the sound recording on which the AMCOS Work is recorded and all underlying or associated associated copyright works;
* you warrant that you are authorised to engage LP Revivalist to copy the sound recording to provide format shifting services to you and to copy the AMCOS Work, the sound recording on which the AMCOS Work is recorded and all underlying or associated copyright works;
* you warrant that you have been solely responsible for deciding whether to copy the AMCOS Work for the purposes of format shifting services and to engage LP Revivalist to provide the format shifting service to you including copying the AMCOS Work and all underlying or associated associated copyright works to provide the format shifting service to you;
* you warrant and agree that you will not hold LP Revivalist liable for any loss, costs, expenses or damages you suffer or incur as a consequence of your engagement of LP Revivalist to provide format shifting services to you including any copyright infringement; and
* you agree to indemnify LP Revivalist in respect of all loss, costs, expenses or damages which LP Revivalist may or does suffer as a result of a breach of the above warranties.
LP Revivalist is not responsible for your use of any digital copy of any sound recording we make after delivery of the digital copy to you or your use of the original sound recording. However, we do draw your attention to the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) which regulates your use of copies and the original sound recording. In particular, you should note that you cannot do any of the following:
* sell the copy or the original sound recording;
* distribute the copy or the original sound recording;
* play the copy or the original sound recording in public; and
* broadcast the copy or the original sound recording.
Video - Copyright
LP Revivalist is not the holder of a licence that allows it to copy or format shift commercial video or films. Therefore, when placing your order:
* you warrant that you are authorised to copy the video or film and all underlying or associated copyright works;
* you warrant that you are authorised to engage LP Revivalist to record the video or film and all copyrights in the underlying or associated copyright works for the purposes of providing format shifting services to you;
* you warrant that you have been solely responsible in deciding whether to engage LP Revivalist to provide the format shifting service to you including copying all underlying or associated associated copyright works to provide the format shifting service to you;
* you warrant and agree that you will not hold LP Revivalist liable for any loss, costs, expenses or damages you suffer or incur as a consequence of your engagement of LP Revivalist to provide format shifting services to you including any copyright infringement; and
* you agree to indemnify LP Revivalist in respect of all loss, costs, expenses or damages which LP Revivalist may or does suffer as a result of a breach of the above warranty.
LP Revivalist is not responsible for your use of any digital copy of any video or film we make after delivery of the digital copy to you or your use of the original video or film.
Repair Service
If you request that we attempt to repair your audio cassette or video cassette, we will use reasonable endeavours to do so. However, you accept that it may not be possible to repair your cassette and that this may result in the loss of all material recorded on the cassette. You agree that you will not hold us responsible for the loss of your material if we cannot repair your cassette.
Liability for the supply of services or products
To the maximum extent permitted by law, LP Revivalist excludes completely all liability to any person for loss or damage of any kind (however caused, including by negligence) arising from or relating in any way to the services we supply to you. Where any law implies a warranty in to our terms of supply which may not lawfully be excluded, then to the maximum extent permitted by law, our liability for breach of the warranty will at our option be limited to the supply of the Services again, or the payment of the cost of having them supplied again.
If you want to have up to 5 records cleaned and a couple of records transferred to CD then it will typically take us 24 hours. If you want more than small quantities done then we will give you an estimate when we take your order.
We accept payment by Credit Card (Visa & Mastercard), Paypal, Money Order, Cheque ( Payable to "Cart Sea Pty Limited" ), Direct Deposit or cash.
Depending on the size or nature of your order, we may require you to pay a deposit or pre-pay for the entire order. We may also require a deposit or pre-payment if you require us to keep your completed order for more than seven days after completion.
We will discuss deposit or pre-payment with you when you place your order or, if you are shipping your order to us, after we have reviewed your order.
Can I drop off my items?
Yes you can. Just give us a call and we will arrange a mututally convenient time for you to drop off your records.
Yes you can. Just call in advance to place your order.
If you mail or otherwise ship your records, cassettes or other items to us for processing, you accept that we are not liable for any loss or damage to your original item until it has been delivered to us. We will notify you when we receive your items for processing.
In the case of orders of 10 LPs or cassettes or more, we can collect your order. We may charge a fee for collecting your order depending on distance. We will discuss this with you at the time you place your order.
Can I collect my completed order?
Yes you can. If you would like to do this, just let us know when you place your order that you would like to collect it when completed. We will arrange a time with you either when you place your order or when we notify you that we have completed your order.
Unless otherwise agreed at the time you place your order or when we notify you that your order is complete, we will post your original items and completed order to you using Australia Post regular mail services. We will notify you when we have posted your completed order. We are not liable for any loss or damage to your original item or to the CD or DVD we produce which is caused to the item after we have posted it.
Can you deliver my completed order?
In some instances, we can deliver your completed order. We may charge a fee for delivering your order. We will discuss this with you at the time you place your order.
Do you have shipping packs?
Yes we do. We will supply an LP mailing package to you by post that can be used for up to 5 LPs. This is priced at $8 including postage of the empty mailer to you. You can then reuse this to send the records to us and we can use it to send them back to you. If necessary it can be reused again. For LP to CD conversions of 10 or more LPs the mailers are provided with 50% discount.
Can you order multiple copies of a record?
Unless you have permission from the copyright owner we cannot make multiple copies of a record. In the event that we can make additional copies these are priced at $4.50 per copy.
It is very likely that we can make a transfer provided that the record is not so scratched that it will not play without the stylus jumping. Just how much we minimise or eliminate the scratches on the CD depends upon how damaged the recording is.
If your record is badly damaged by use of a worn stylus then the information in the grooves may have been damaged so much that information has been lost. Although we can remove a substantial amount of the crackle and pops, and we can remove the white noise sound caused by worn grooves, it is not going to sound "new" but will sound better than the raw vinyl.
Yes! We are pleased to be able to report that after doing internal trials of cassette to CD transfer we are satisfied that we can provide this to a satisfactory level of quality and have launched the service. More details can be found on the cassette to cd page.
Yes we can. The process is digitial end to end so is the highest quality possible. See our mini disk to CD page for more details.
Possibly. As we state on this web site, we delete the digitial recordings of your records or cassettes after 30 days. However we do make regular backups of all our data and it is possible that we can recover your data from a backup. The backups are of a revolving type and are overwritten in a time frame determined by the level of activity. We currently estimate that backups are retrievable for about 4-5 months. There is a $10 charge for determining if we still have your recording in the backup and if so making you a copy.
Yes see our Music Server page.
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