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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.

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!

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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