How It Works



Features
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Digital I/ODigital workflow ensures your reels are never compressed or down converted, so your recordings sound better than you remember them
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Digital RemasteringOur technicians work their digital wizardry over fading recordings, bringing them back to glorious life with noise removal, normalizing, and equalization.
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Archival QualityAll your transfers come in high-quality uncompressed audio files on an archival-grade compact disc rated for over 100 years.
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Track Your OrderWe understand how important these moments are so we’ve developed an amazing order tracking system that provides you updates every step.
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Digitized in the USAUnlike others in our industry, we process and check every order by hand here in the high-tech hub of the South, Chattanooga.
We convert all these formats (and more).
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CassettesRewinding gets old, really fast. Everyday we're converting tapes to CD, preserving audio so that you can listen to them again and again.Learn more about Cassettes to CD >
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Reel to ReelWorking reel-to-reel players are few and far between. It's time to fast forward to the present.Learn more about Reel to Reel >
Common Questions
Our mail-in service is simple and easy. Just send us your Southtree kit, filled with old home movies or pictures. We'll do the rest, digitizing all your recorded moments to DVD or digital. Every Southtree kit includes a welcome guide with instructions, safety barcodes for every item, a pre-paid return mailing label, and a sturdy Southtree box for safe packing and sending.


Our team of trained Technicians can digitize 19 different types of analog media to DVD, Thumb Drive or Digital Download.

TAPES
- VHS
- VHS-C
- Hi8
- Video 8
- MiniDV
- Betamax
- MicroMV
- PAL
- Digital 8
- Camcorder

FILMS
- 8mm
- 16mm

Pictures
(25 pictures = 1 item)
- Prints
- 35mm slides
- 35mm negatives

AUDIO
- Audio Cassette
- Cassette Tape
- Compact Cassette
- Reel-to-Reel
It takes 2 - 4 weeks once we receive your filled Southtree kit. You'll receive regular email updates throughout the whole process with access to a personal concierge to answer all your questions.
Updated along the way
Memories are personal, so are we. That's why we're committed to keeping you informed at every step in the digitizing process. Log in to track your order at any time! Plus, every item you send is barcoded and tracked from start to finish. You’ll receive up to a dozen e-mailed updates throughout our process.
Track your order »You'll receive your original analog media plus digitized and ready to relive digital copies on your choice of DVD, Thumb Drive or Digital Download. Our team of professionals carefully converts all analog media by hand, right here in the United States.

Thumb Drive
Add Thumb Drive
Digital Download
Add Digital Download
DVD Set
Add DVD Set
All your original media
Professional decks extract the best of analog, mastering it in clear digital glory.
Thank goodness we can listen to all that hi-fi heaven digitally on crystal clear thumb drives, digital delivery through Southtree Cloud™ or CDs. Although CDs rose to prominence in the 90s, we all still have a few treasured cassettes we are holding onto. There's no better time to digitize your cassettes in full 16 bit, 44.1kHZ audio quality in full stereo. With the help of our digital noise reduction, you'll be ready to blast your tunes from the past!
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Cassettes to CD Service
Ah yes, the 80s. When the hair was big and the gas mileage was small. Every cassette came with a free denim jacket and a nice set of shoulder pads. Those were heady times.
Unfortunately, as awesome as cassettes were, they weren’t exactly built to last. Kind of like Billy Joel’s marriages. Not only are they unstable and prone to breakage, unless you’ve been asleep for the last 30 years you might have noticed it’s getting harder and harder to find a device that will actually play them for you. Cars are rarely equipped with cassette players anymore, and you’ll have a hard time finding an appropriate device at your local electronics store. What we’re saying is, it might be time for you to move on.
Thumb drive, digital delivery through Southtree Cloud™ and CDs are an amazing technological advance. They last for a very long time, and storing them is easy.
CDs are also still one of the prevailing methods of listening to music today – the odds are great that you’ve got some in your home right now (and they’re definitely on the shelf of your local electronics store) and the odds are pretty low that you’ve still got the kind of cassette player you’ll need to listen to your tapes (and that’s something you won’t find at the electronics super store). If you’ve got old tapes that you can’t access, it’s time to make the cassette to Digital switch with Southtree. Get back together with your memories.
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