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Welkom bij Dutch Tape Transfers. De plek voor het digitaliseren van uw analoge en digitale audiobanden, gevestigd in Utrecht.

Uw gastheer Wout de Kruif zet alles op alles voor de allerbeste transfer van uw kostbare mastertapes, klaar voor de toekomst.

24/12/2025

After six years of handwriting my “transferred” stickers to let the future know a tape has been transferred, it’s time for an upgrade! From now on these new stickers will tell you. It will still feature my scribbly handwriting, but only for the date. Oh yeah, and they’re waterproof! Happy archiving engineer here! Have a wonderful Christmas everybody! ✨🎄🤶

15/12/2025

After a batch of stereo master tapes of a project, it’s always very cool to transfer the multitrack tapes. It doesn’t only gives me a look behind the curtain of a production, which is very interesting, but it sometimes reveals a whole world of unused material. That’s the case with the project I’m working on at the moment. Lots of studio jams, alternate takes and atmospheric tryouts. I can feel some bonustracks coming up. 😸👍

12/12/2025

Today on the menu: DAT transfers of a legendary Dutch artist his tape archive 2000 to 2003. More than a hundred tapes in total and a real joy to work on.

All tapes are transferred in my Tascam DA-45HR DAT recorder. A 24bit DAT machine, but great on regular 16bit DAT tapes with help of an error counter. Some small errors are hardly noticable on a normal deck, but on this deck they can easily be located and fixed by redoing it or on another machine.

The “Total 02 Err” message is false alarm in this case. Errors can be detected when a new track or take was started when the recording was made. So errors inbetween songs can be ignored.

Outputting AES/EBU to my RME convertor for a true 1on1 digital copy. Ready for the future! 😺👍

20/11/2025

Golden Earrings’ 1969 album “On The Double” got released as a remastered & expanded edition by Red Bullet. Remastered by Wouter Bessels who did a fantastic job. I got the honour to transfer all the master tapes. Since all previous releases, including the original LP were cut from second generation production masters, we took the opportunity to work from the first generation masters this time! The record never sounded this clean, open and dynamic before. Featuring liner notes written by Jeroen Ras. I’m very proud to be part of this project. I hope you like it as much as we did working on it!

10/11/2025

Another great episode of Bart’s Classic Track by Bart Arens covering “Annabel” by Hans de Booy. I had the honour to provide the tape transfers. The original multitrack was 16 tracks on 1inch, transferred on my Tascam 85-16B. A flux of 320nWb/m with DBX noise reduction.

You can watch the episode on YouTube and even a longer version as a podcast on your favorite streaming service.

From the Red Bullet and Hans Kusters Music archives. Enjoy!

14/10/2025

Today is Sony DASH day starring the Sony PCM-3348, 48 digital tracks on 1/2inch tape at 16bit and 44.1 or 48kHz. The output is the very ancient SDIF-2 format, but my Euphonix FC-727 takes care of it by converting it to a useful AES/EBU format.

Now playing: one of Dutch biggest singer-songwriters together with live at Paradiso Amsterdam in 1996. A beautiful recording! All 48 tracks are filled up, and even the rarely used two analog tracks are used for french horns which makes it a 50-track machine today. 😺👍

22/09/2025

May I introduce to you, my new turntable! The Technics SL-1200 mk4. Released only in Japan in 1996, so I’m glad I found it on Dutch soil. Why this version? This one has, next to the usual 33 and 45RPM, 78RPM! So with the help of a special 78 stylus, your 78’s are welcome for transferring too! Regular LP’s and singles will meet my trusty Ortofon 2M Blue stylus.

But beware! Vinyl is not a costs effective shortcut to get your catalog online. Transferring tapes is faster and sounds much much better and usually don’t need any time consuming restoration. But when nothing else is available, this beauty will give your vinyl the best spins available! 😺👍

02/09/2025

This beautiful crème coloured piece of German history entered the studio. A rack made by ANT/Telefunken with 24 channels of Telcom C4 noise reduction. It was mostly used in broadcast and live-recordings, so these tapes are in good hands with this unit around. Now I need to free up some rackspace above her Dolby A, SR and DBX neighbours. Oh, did I mention it’s built like a tank? Well, it’s built like a tank! 😺👍

25/08/2025

While on vacation with my family, I can’t help doing some little work when everyone else is resting or hanging around. Things I can do with just me and my macbook. No tape machines involved.

In this case, for upcoming re-releases of Curtie And The Boombox, I had to re-edit a bunch of 12inch mixes. Since I didn’t have the original masters for the 12inch versions, but only the digital mix PCM Betamax tapes with 12” mix outtakes included, I had to re-edit it together side-by-side to the vinyl transfer. It worked great, so these 12inch versions will be released very soon. Next to this job, I had some artwork touch-ups to do and some mixing.

And of course a lovely time with my son, girlfriend and the rest of the family. ❤️

10/07/2025

Look who’s back! My DMR-2000 and PCM-1630 units got a well deserved maintenance treatment. Not that they were broken, oh no! But since I wanted them to stay up and running, they got checked up, aligned and recapped here and there. Ready for many years and tapes to come.

What is it? The PCM-1630 or 1610 format was a video based digital audio format introduced in the late 70’s and found it’s way into mainly mastering studios around the world during the 80’s and 90’s. It became the standard for CD manufacturing in times when harddisks weren’t around yet, using Umatic tapes and a heavy modified Umatic recorder. The video signal (looking like flickering stripes) gets decoded by the PCM-1630 unit, outputting 16bit/44.1kHz digital audio.

Thanks to Ruud of DVS in Almere for taking care of these legends. Happy Wout here! 😺👍

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