ANTHONY SCRACE AUDIO PRODUCTIONS

DIGITAL SOUND LOCATION RECORDING STUDIO RECORDING DIGITAL EDITING
CUSTOM MUSIC PRODUCTION CASSETTE DUPLICATION CASSETTE LABELLING PARTIAL CLIENT LIST

e-mail: tscrace@direct.ca
Fax: (604)530-3184
Tel: (604)530-1027

Anthony Scrace has been servicing the audio needs of Vancouver businesses for over eight years. With an extensive background in recording the human voice, he has specialized in educational, self-help, and other voice based recordings. After years of editing hundreds of reels of analog tape by hand he knew there had to be a better way. Now, with the advances of digital sound, your audio recording and editing needs can be met with speed, quality, and, best of all, an affordable price.

Anthony Scrace Audio Productions can provide you with a one stop shop for all your recording, editing, and duplication needs. From scripted educational and self help tapes, to live seminars and conferences, to final packaging of your product, we will handle it all. You can even arrange to have your recording made in your own office, home, or any other location for maximum convenience and flexibility. High quality directional microphones, portable digital recorders, and flexible digital editing make this an affordable luxury. If you need background music, custom intros, or other sound effects, Tony's twenty years of music background will serve you well.

More than any technological advance, Tony feels that personalized service and attention to individual customers needs are the most important aspects of any business.

DIGITAL SOUND:

In the past, recordings were made using analog audio tape. This method was reliable but had many drawbacks, especially for voice recording. First of all, analog tape always produced a noticeable amount of background hiss. This could be overcome to a certain degree with various noise reduction techniques, but transferring from one tape to another caused degradation as multiple stages of noise reduction altered the sound. For recording live events, you faced recording time limitations, unless you sacrificed quality for time. This often meant stopping your seminar or killing time while the recordist changed the tape. Also, this time limitation meant high tape cost due to the expense of analog tape (50¢ to $1.00 per minute depending on fidelity). Finally, and perhaps most importantly, analog tape required you to physically splice the tape in order to edit it. This meant you either worked from a copy, which had lower fidelity due to being transferred from one tape to another, or you took the risk of cutting your only master tape. This made it difficult to change your mind or make changes days or weeks later.

With digital recording we solve all of these problems, while gaining maximum fidelity and clarity. Digital tape creates no hiss at all. The only sounds you hear are the ones that were recorded, not the tape itself. Digital recordings can be copied hundreds of times with no perceptible change or degradation. For live recording you can record for over two hours continuously without having to change the tape, while maintaining the highest quality of sound. One of the major advantages of this technology is that tape costs are greatly reduced to roughly 15¢ per minute. It is during the editing phase though, that digital recording has its greatest advantages. Audio editing can be done with the speed, ease, and accuracy of editing text in a word processor. In fact, with digital editing we use no tape at all. Instead, all audio is stored on a hard disk where it can be accessed and manipulated immediately without touching the original recording. This allows for maximum flexibility and the greatest possible speed in editing. All this adds up to a high quality finished product at a price anyone can afford.

LOCATION RECORDING:

Did you know the average person's attention span is less than twenty minutes? The most common statement by attendees to seminars and lectures is, "I wish I had a recording so I could remember everything that was said". You can be sure they remember, while adding a valuable marketing opportunity to your business. Record your seminar, conference, or other live event, in stereo digital sound and capture the event for people to listen to at their leisure while you add another item to your product line.

STUDIO RECORDING:

High quality professional recording no longer has to be expensive. Combine world class studio microphones with high quality digital recorders and editors to produce a polished, professional sound. The public has become accustomed to Compact Discs, Stereo Hi-Fi VCR's, Stereo T.V.'s, and 16 bit stereo sound from their home computers. Don't disappoint them by making a low quality audio recording. This is even more important for voice recordings because the human voice is, for most of us, the most familiar sound to our ears.

DIGITAL EDITING:

The secret to most fine voice recordings is editing. Editing allows mistakes, noises, interruptions, or other unwanted sounds to be removed effortlessly without the listener being aware of any changes. When your original recording is made in a digital format, all editing can be done in the digital domain without any deterioration to the quality of your recording. This means you can be free to make as many changes as you want, without damaging the quality of the original. Recordings made in the older analog formats (cassette, reel-to-reel, etc.) can still be edited digitally. This prevents future generational loss and allows for quick, efficient editing.

CUSTOM MUSIC PRODUCTION:

A small amount of music can sometimes make the difference between an interesting tape and an exciting presentation. We can create custom themes, background music, or "sound logo's" to add another dimension to your companies identity. Sound effects and stock music are also available.

CASSETTE DUPLICATION:

Duplication is the final link in the chain between the recording session and the finished cassette. Many people try to save by using low cost, low quality cassette tapes. This can undermine all the effort that went into making a quality recording by leaving you with a hiss filled, low fidelity tape. We offer quality chrome cassettes at the price of normal bias "voice" cassettes. You no longer need to sacrifice quality for quantity.

CASSETTE LABELLING:

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