In the early 60’s John’s parents were one of the few with a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder and they made great use of it. John brought a reel to Gracenote entitled “Johnny’s 6th birthday” for conversion and restoration. Here is his response to the finished product: “Hi Bruce! Wow! Thanks for the great work! I’ve […]
Many years ago, Rob Young did some recording ‘down East’ – some fine finger-style guitar playing as well as some original tunes – and it was time to bring those recordings to digital life. Gracenote was pleased to restore these 1/4″ reel to reel tapes and help Rob take a trip down memory lane!
Greg Connor’s father died when Greg was an infant, 50 years ago. Greg’s mother passed recently. In the midst of going through boxes in his mother’s attic, Greg found a very old reel-to-reel tape entitled “For my children”, and it wasn’t in his mother’s handwriting. One track on the reel turned out to be a […]
The family of Ernest Meekis sent Gracenote a cassette of his musical performances. The music was transferred into digital format, cleaned-up to remove tape-hiss, and enhanced for reproduction on beautifully printed Memorial CDs.
The folk / vocal band, LUKE, had only a mono cassette recording of their 1979 concert. Gracenote turned it into a beautiful stereo CD whose quality far exceeds the original.
Back in the 1930’s, two brothers went down to New York City and recorded two original songs onto the Latest Technology, the 78 rpm record. Now each branch of the family wants a copy of this treasured heirloom. Gracenote Productions performed its restoration magic and the music lives on! ‘Broken Heart’ – before clean-up ‘BrokenHeart’ […]
The Kruse family unearthed a cassette from the 1970’s containing their grandfather (R.I.P) singing and playing songs from the ‘old country’. Gracenote has enhanced the quality of this recording and converted it to digital format – now the Kruse’s have this precious keepsake preserved for future generations.
The choir of Kelvin High School did a number of recordings that were distributed on audio cassette. Gracenote Productions has transfered these to CD using its digital magic to remove tape-hiss and enhance the overall sound.
Toronto based pianist / lawyer Michael S. Grammer, H.B.A., LL.B., A.R.C.T. has entrusted Gracenote Productions with 18 hours of original piano compositions on audio tape. Intensive sonic enhancement and reconstruction has brought these precious master tapes into the digital era.
Gracenote Productions has taken two vinyl albums of the Original Polka Kings (Syl Medwid on violin) and digitally restored and re-mastered onto a single compilation CD. The first vinyl was pressed at a higher speed than was originally played, which had always disappointed the band members. Through the magic of digital technology those tracks have […]