Dear colleagues,
I know it has been asked before, but I would like a casual, off the cuff estimate for professional restoration of about 2,000 hour long reels of quarter inch 7.5 IPS tapes. The radio nonprofit I work with donated (sold?) their archives of weekly programs from 1973 to 2007 to Stanford, and since Stanford has not even attempted any restoration (due to economic factors) though they had promised to do that, we are thinking of asking some deep pockets for funding to do that.
I work for them at ridiculously low rates since I have been doing their audio for decades, so I am interested in real-world commercial costs.
I know there is a bureaucratic process to gain access to them from Stanford, but that is a different question, but I am just asking what a ballpark figure might be to get that archive digitized. Per hour is one thing, but would a batch price be different? I know about a third of them would need baking, but not all as many are on Scotch 176 which should be immune from SSS. Richard? Anyone?
<L>
Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
|