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George Blood LP Acquires Sonicraft A2DX Lab, Adding MasterTape Audio Restoration to Its Preservation Services
The acquisition brings the renowned analog multitrack transfer lab, and its record-label and recording-studio client base, in-house at George Blood's Philadelphia area facility.
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa., June 30th, 2026 -- George Blood LP, a nationally recognized audio and video preservation and digitization company, today announced that it has acquired Sonicraft A2DX Lab, the specialized analog audio lab known for rescuing and digitizing analog open-reel master tapes for record labels, recording studios, and artists.
The acquisition adds Sonicraft's master tape restoration capability to George Blood's existing preservation services, including tape baking, analog-to-digital transfer, and the recovery of reels damaged by mold, flood, and contamination. Sonicraft's equipment, including its fleet of Ampex MM1200 and restored Ampex 440C machines, had already relocated from New Jersey to George Blood's headquarters in the greater Philadelphia area in March of 2024, continuing operations up until the acquisition.
For more than two decades, Sonicraft A2DX Lab has built its reputation on high-stakes analog transfers, handling everything from quarter-inch full-track mono to time-code-synchronized two-inch 24-track multitrack multi-tape transfers. The Lab reports that it has migrated and restored more than 2,500 tapes and preserved over 50,000 hours of audio, with a 99 percent success rate on at-risk reels. Its clients have included Warner Records, ASCAP, and Trinity Recording Studio.
“Sonicraft has spent more than two decades doing some of the most demanding analog tape work in the business,” said George Blood, founder of George Blood LP. “Bringing that capability and that craftsmanship under our roof lets us serve musicians, labels, and studios with the same rigor we bring to the world's great archives.”
“Kevin and Sonicraft have been part of our professional network for years. Since they moved in with us the opportunity to collaborate has grown. We’ve worked on multiple projects, such as 40 years of Farm Aid concerts, the Grateful Dead concert recordings for nugs.net, and transfers for the Plangent Process which requires capturing the high frequency bias signal from tapes. In just two years the distinction between our two companies has melted away, with our complimentary services, and strong working relationship. Sonicraft’s world leading 1:1, fully monitored transfers on carefully curated and maintained machines captures the essence of analog recordings, which are a joy to hear.”
“Joining Geroge Blood was a move that benefitted both entities,” said Kevin Przybylowski, owner of Sonicraft A2DX Lab. “We were able to add our vast experience with restoring and digitizing just about every format of open-reel-analog tape to their already comprehensive knowledge, and with George Blood’s ability to restore, digitize, and recover just about any format of analog or digital audio, video, or data we have exponentially expanded what we can offer.”
The acquisition extends the preservation practice George Blood began in 1992 into the high end of music master tape work, including recording studio masters and multitrack sessions. It complements the company's longstanding archival, spoken-word, and audiovisual preservation services for libraries, museums, cultural institutions, and corporations.
About George Blood LP
For more than three decades, George Blood LP has delivered professional audio and video preservation services to musicians, composers, universities, libraries, corporations, and individual clients, both nationally and internationally. The company supports playback of over 210 audio and video formats, employs engineers with more than 55 Grammy nominations, and was an early contributor to the Library of Congress FADGI best practices for video preservation specification, and the SMPTE RDD48 MXF specification for preservation.. Learn more at www.georgeblood.com.
About Sonicraft A2DX Lab
Sonicraft A2DX Lab specializes in the restoration and digitization of open-reel analog audio tape, including tape baking, analog-to-digital transfer, and the rescue of reels damaged by mold, flood, and contamination. The Lab serves record labels, recording studios, and artists. Learn more at sonicraft.com.
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