In case you know someone with a collection of tango recordings who is looking for a way to put them to good use and professional care, please feel free to mention our work at TANGO-DJ.AT. I'll briefly describe what we can do for collections donated to us and what we did for the collection donated by the family of Alan Gray:
First of all we help with organizing packing and transportation. Once they are in house each record will be fotographed, scanned and thoroughly cleaned on a Loricarft - a professional record cleaner.
Multiple digital transfers will be produced using different stylus and transfer modes. There is always one stereo RAW-transfer without any manipulation and a few additional transfers using appropriate equalization curves. In the light of the recent data center fire it seems worth being mentioned that TANGO-DJ.AT is not using cloud storage, but all of our digital data is saved by following an elaborate backup strategy using multiple backup versions and being distributed over various locations of our own control.
From those archive transfers we produce the audio sound samples for the TANGO-DJ.AT DATABASE, post-process the record fotos and label scans, research and add meta data and finally export and upload the recordings, media files and meta data to the online database where our supporting members have full access to this information.
If some of the recordings seem to be interesting for Tango-DJs or collectors, they will be restored, re-mastered and made available to our supporting members as TANGO RECORDS releases.
Of course we also provide the donating party with the professional digital transfers and the foto material. The records itself are commented, categorized and stored in archive grade record sleeves.
Btw. - if you happen to collect 78-RPM records, please note that you are dealing with very fragile material! Besides of breaking easily, there are plenty of other things you may not be aware of. One of the possible issues which I came across with this collection and I want to share with you: Never use any kind of marker anywhere near your records! Take a look of what they can do to your records: |
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