Used equipment for sale - updated JUNE 12th
ANY INTEREST, PLEASE ENQUIRE. Prices includes delivery to UK addresses for courier-friendly items. For larger items - mixers and computers - we can arrange delivery. Extra charges may be made for international delivery
Need more than one of an item? please ask - I've got a full stock cupboard!
DIGITISE YOUR VIDEOTAPES FOR PLAYBACK ON TV, COMPUTER, PHONE
S-VHS, VHS, VHS-C, Mini DV, 8mm
I can now digitise your old videotapes for playback on your television, computer, tablet or phone. Using professional image stabilising equipment I "capture" the picture to high-resolution files and render-out to a file format best suited to the devices you need.
Videotapes
I can digitise from S-VHS & VHS, the home videotape formats used most widely from the 1980's onwards, and from 3 of the most popular videocamera formats: VHS-C (which plays in a standard VHS machine using an adaptor) Mini DV and Video8/8mm video
Please note I will not copy from copyright-protected tapes
Delivery
I capture the tapes to a high resolution computer file, then copy these files to a format that best suits the device or devices that you require. These files can be supplied on USB memory stick, hard drive or via the internet
Rates are £20 per tape- plus stock as required
Please enquire for discounts on bulk transfers
FILM SOUND TRANSFER/ARCHIVE
Digital
Analogue and Optical
Analogue and Optical
With my Pro Tools system I can capture audio up to 24 bit, 192k sample rate
Audio Capture: From multiple professional and domestic formats
Sound Syncing: Using clapperboard, timecode or "eyeballing"
Tracklaying: Multiple sound effects libraries with easy-access "Soundminer" software
Audio Sweetening: Multiple plug-ins for optimising sound quality
Analogue and Optical
Analogue and Optical
Analogue and Optical
MAG TRANSFERS £35 Per Hour
For Students and Artists
(excluding film stock)
I have a limited supply of blank film stock - first come, first served
Using Albrecht MB 51 mag players I can RECORD and PLAYBACK to the following analogue formats:
35mm Magnetic: 6, 4 or 3 track
17.5mm Magnetic: mono, stereo
16mm Magnetic: EBU tracks 1+2, Centre + Edge,
MAG TRANSFERS £35 Per Hour
For Students and Artists
(excluding film stock)
I have a limited supply of blank film stock - first come, first served
Using Albrecht MB 51 mag players I can RECORD and PLAYBACK to the following analogue formats:
35mm Magnetic: 6, 4 or 3 track
17.5mm Magnetic: mono, stereo
16mm Magnetic: EBU tracks 1+2, Centre + Edge, Cue track/commag
All with Dolby A or Dolby SR noise reduction as required
Alternative Formats
Analogue and Optical
Alternative Formats
I have many other digital, analogue and optical audio playback formats which constantly change. if your required format is not on my list please CONTACT ME - if I can't do it I can recommend who can!
Current equipment list:
DAT: Timecode, Non-Timecode, "Long Play" (half speed)
Tascam Hi-8: 24-bit DA98HR
Audio Cassette
CD and Mini CD
Vinyl player - 33 or 45 rpm
6 channels of Dolby A/SR
Zoom WAV recorder
About Me
Steve Felton
I have worked in the film and television sound post production industry for over 40 years.
After leaving school in 1979 I took a position as Trainee Tape Operator in a recording studio and magnetic film transfer bay in Soho where I transferred 1/4” tape music masters to 35mm, 16mm and 17.5mm mag, and prepared tape masters for disc cutting, making tape edits with a joining block and splicing tape.
After 5 years my co-worker (Nigel Heath) and I saw a gap in the market and my first business - Hackenbacker - was established. We rented rooms from Stanley and Peter Long at Salon and worked with an array of clients, including major feature films and film students - which was where I first started working with artist Tacita Dean; we still work together of her film projects, as well as promoting the irreplaceable benefits of celluloid.
By 1985/6 digital technology had moved into post production. We were one of the first facilities to invest in the AMS Audiofile, an 8 track play/record/edit system which synchronised to Lo-band U-matic video tape. We quickly expanded, first building a small mixing theatre with a recording area for voice-over and Foley recording, then taking the lease on a recording studio in Soho’s Chinatown.
The next expansion was into Shepperton Film Studios, where we teamed up with a freelance sound editor to create The Sound Design Company, with ten sound and picture editing rooms housing Pro Tools, AMS Audiofile, Avid, Audiovision and Akai DD1500.
By now I was Studio Managing; we were tracklaying numerous film and television projects and hiring out sound and picture editing equipment, employing a squad of full-time staff, freelance sound editors and foley artists, and working with Producers, Directors and re-record facilities from all around the world. We developed an exemplary reputation for quality of work and attitude and spent many years at the top of the tree.
Of course time, clients and equipment moves on; my staff became freelancers themselves and are well respected technicians, working on many award-winning film projects - of which I am extremely proud!
Since working at Shepperton I have worked as in-house sound editor at Synxspeed (part of the Deluxe group) and Head of Sound at Cinelab London.
I helped in the restoration of a major music label’s archive collection and edited effects, foley and dialogue on various feature film projects.
IMDB: Steve Felton:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1285940/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2
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