When you have vintage audio, video or photographic materials that need restoration, how do you get your materials here from where you are?
• If your home or office is nearby, you can easily drive here and deliver in person.
• If distance makes driving inconvenient, you’ll need to send your materials. This is a two-step process.
What that alarming title actually means, of course, is capturing the life story of your grandmother – or any senior family member – with a professionally recorded audio or video interview. The adventures and accomplishments, trials and tribulations, joys and regrets of your senior family members can be fascinating, meaningful – and educational!
My grandmother was a tremendous positive influence on me, and the recordings I made of her warm, loving voice nearly fifty years ago remain among my treasures.Your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles can provide a treasure trove of personal and family history. You’ll learn things about them that might surprise you.
Continue reading →Here at King Street Recording Company, we’ve been restoring and preserving vintage sound recordings, videos and photographs for a long time. The emphasis has always been on producing the best quality results. This takes a great deal of time, careful attention and skill. Now and then someone will ask, “Why bother?” This is why:
Continue reading →Digital Audio – Fact and Fiction
There are a great number of popular myths and misunderstandings about the capabilities of digital audio. The fact is, most things take longer than we expect them to. There are good reasons for this.
In creating a CD from an old 78-rpm record or analog tape, original recordings will only play in real time. That means that a 60-minute record or tape will actually require a full hour to play and digitize.
Continue reading →Have you ever wondered what to do with that old photo from your childhood? The one with the cracks in it?
What about those color snapshots from your high school or college days that are beginning to fade and lose their color?
And the black and white photos of you and your army buddies – armed and ready for the battle that not all of you returned from?
And what condition are your wedding photos in after all these years?
Where are the photos of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other relatives? And what kind of condition are they in?
Do you have snapshots of your kids that are beginning to look a little worn around the edges?
If you’re typical, tucked away in your attic (or closet or basement) are old sound recordings of people and events that are important to you. Having those old tapes and disks restored and converted to CD, can provide entertaining listening. Here are some examples:
Continue reading →How much do your kids, grandkids and other family members really know about you? Where have you been? What have you done? How many of your life’s adventures have you simply forgotten to mention? What record will you leave behind of the story of your life? And how do you want to be remembered?
Continue reading →Beam’s Music Presents
Memories of the Main Point III
Still More Songs and Stories
About Your Favorite Folkies
Featuring, Live (more or less)
Those Playboys of the Western World
(Sometimes known as the Three Bozo Brothers)
King Street Recording Company Professional Audio Services for Any Purpose You Can Think Of – Video Too! Volume 60, Summer, 2015 610-647-4341 www.kingstreetrecording.com kingstreetrecord@aol.com The Other Room Many first-time visitors to my studio generally enter through the office area and … Continue reading →
Central Wayne Arts Gathering Presents Professional Singer, Guitarist & Coffeehouse Entertainer Emmet Robinson Saturday, May 16, 2015 Songs and stories, old, new, borrowed and blue; familiar folk and country favorites, an original tune or two, sing-a-longs, new material by writers not … Continue reading →