Archives abroad: Swiss National Sound Archives up to Complex Digitization

Audio Solutions, a leading provider of flexible, functional, and comprehensive audio archiving systems, today announced that Fonoteca Nazionale Svizzera (FN), the Swiss National Sound Archives, has installed a set of six NOA N6191 stereo converters in its technical department in Lugano, Switzerland. FN will use the equipment to digitize the analog portions of the Swiss audio heritage, much of the source material for which exists in atypical formats that can be hard to digitize.

FN's technical and computer department is responsible for copying, restoring, digitizing, and archiving all of the repository's digital documents. FN will use the new converters to digitize analog audio recordings that consist of coarse- and micro-groove records, cassette and open-reel tapes, and many other somewhat exotic formats.