1 - 3 LP’s - Customers pay for shipping.

4 or more LP’s - Shipping is free

The recommendation for shipping is to use USPS and their Media Mail service. It is without a doubt the best and safest way to ship your vinyl to me and back. And I can speak from authority on that. I have used it for years (and years!) now and their record is perfect! But you need to make sure you use their mailers and to NOT ship anymore than three LP’s per mailer. Also, don’t forget to label the packaging as ‘Fragile’. It helps!

Please note: The cost to clean, process and ship four or more LP’s at a time goes down significantly enough that I am able to charge less per LP on anything four or more. So it literally pays, if you can, to order at least four at a time per order.

For mail in customers only, please limit your orders to no more than 12 LP’s per individual customer at this time. Thank you.

Also, at this time, all orders smaller than twelve LP’s will need to be mailed to my business address and this includes all local orders as well. For orders greater than a quantity of twelve, I can only accept local orders at this time and arrangements will be made for pick-up and deliveries of the LP’s when finished.

For all orders, each LP will be given a brand new poly-lined record sleeve to house them for proper storage after they have been cleaned and Milty-anti-static discharged.

Please note: The cost to clean, process and ship four or more LP’s at a time goes down significantly enough that I am able to charge less per LP on anything four or more. So it literally pays, if you can, to order at least four at a time per order. And again, shipping is free on orders of four or more.

As of now, turnaround time per order is two to four weeks to completion of each order once I receive your legacy vinyl. This is a ‘one man’ studio operation and my time for my day(primary) job of providing services for the labels and studios is reserved for the weekdays with the vinyl care part of the business reserved for individual consumers and makes up the secondary part of the business operations reserved for most nights and weekends as it stands now. That is subject to change and will remain flexible as time goes on, for example, peak vs. non-peak times for labels/studios and their business so there may be times that it is slow and I will move the secondary business operations to the primary weekday operations or vice-versa.

I will keep you informed on the status of your order and/or if circumstances warrant an adjustment of the current turnaround timeframe of 2 - 4 weeks. Also, you can always email me for a status of your order and/or if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you and I appreciate your patience and understanding.

For the Vinyl Collection Digital Preservation Service, you will receive a 'light polish' of the high-yield translated audio. Specifically, the post processing of the audio will be limited to just light corrective EQ treatments, minor enhancements and/or light duty cleanup/noise reductions.

The minor enhancements are light additional post audio treatments that get applied primarily to further accentuate a legacy recording’s noteworthy ‘embellishments’ that are part of that recording and that need to be properly and gently given treatments to allow for today’s much improved digital listening environments and/or its compatibility. So for example, these are treatments that seek to gently enhance or allow a legacy recordings inherent 'embellishments' come forward a bit or 'poke through' for your listening enjoyment that are noteworthy in a recording., i.e. Bill Porter's incredible low-end embellishments that are so prevalent in so many of his audio engineered works.

In addition, the ‘light duty cleanup/noise reductions’ primarily are designed to address the lowering of the noise floor that accompanies any LP transfer. This will include, but is not necessarily limited to: low-level rumble, low-level hum and/or harsh vocal sibilant noise artifacts inherent to one degree or another in an LP digital transfer, etc.

Note: There will be no audio restoration and/or major enhanced audio treatments i.e. ‘sound-vision’ elements applied due to conflict of interest clause in the contractual agreements with the labels and studios. Once the industry establishes a ‘Vinyl Master’ official designation and procurement standard, this will need to be modified and/or the guidelines modified to add the specifics surrounding the vinyl master and ‘the sound’.

Finally, I’m adding an option(radio button box that says “1:1 Transfer’ for you to ‘select’ in order to specify, if you wish, for me to perform only 1:1 transfers with absolutely no additional post processing applied, unless indicated in specificity in the ‘Additional Requests/Comments’ Box. For example, you may want to have a 1:1 ‘raw’ transfer but with just ‘declicking’ post-processing, etc. If so, please select the ‘1:1 Transfer’ in the form and then specify the ‘declicking post treatment’ in the ‘Additional Requests’ Box.

The purpose of this addition is to allow you to hear your legacy vinyl ‘As Is’ in order to leave intact those characteristics of ‘the vinyl playback’ that you may find endearing and as part of the ‘appeal of the listen’. In other words, some people want to hear those clicks and pops as it adds to the ‘character of their listen’ and the enjoyment they get from it.

Note: Our professional processes/treatments have been customized to take advantage of what is best for the individual music consumer market and our Vinyl Care services we offer. They are therefore, not necessarily the same as those applied for the legacy audio industry in most cases for legal reasons and for reasons that make the best sense for the consumption of this music at home. In addition, many of the processes(mainly dealing with audio restoration) as a whole are strictly prohibited and are reserved for the professional community. This includes many in depth audio restoration treatments. All of the processes not used and/or customized are to protect and preserve those that are reserved solely for the work I perform for the professional community. (Read below for additional clarification.)

The specific legal jargon reads: Any advanced audio post-processing including audio restoration, in-depth intrusive surgical repair and/or ‘sound-vision’ audio treatments is strictly prohibited and therefore, to be reserved and limited to the creation of the digital HFE audio product/service solely for those parties involved in and/or who are bound to the current standing legal agreements already set forth between the studio and all parties therein contained, specifically, the clents for whom the products and/or services are being produced for. Therefore, any and all existing legal restraints involving the professional obligations currently being held and concerning the studio and the labels/studios legally prevents and/or forbids any additional advanced processing of any audio to any parties outside the existing legal contracts to avoid any conflict of interest and/or any appearance of. and/or any appearance of for evidence of impropriety for those existing contracts that are bound to the existing legal agreements.

Depending on how you listen to your digital music can determine whether it makes sense to add song metadata to your high-end digital audio collection. Read more about it here.

Find out more about a vinyl record’s shelf life and how to get the most out of your vinyl record collection by following these links:

1. How Long Do Vinyl Records Last?

2. How to Store Vinyl Records

With today’s technology for the home, it just makes common sense to ‘work smarter, not harder, by equipping your house with as much modern technological conveniences as makes sense for you and they way you enjoy your digital music collection is no exception. Find out more by following these links:

1. What is hi-fi audio?

2. Digital technology in the world of analogue - Trojan horse or a necessity?

3. Why High-Fidelity Streaming Is The Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For

Follow these links to learn more about how I found out the best way for me when it comes to consuming my hi-res digital audio archives.

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