Cutting Archives

The Cutting Corporation, located in Bethesda, Maryland, has been preserving archival audio materials since 1979. We're a full service archival lab capable of both audio preservation (accurate re-recording) and audio restoration (removing distortion, recovering signal loss, or recovering signal decay).

As a sound preservation lab, our goal is to make recorded sound collections available to listeners for years to come. In addition, we believe in providing informative tools so archivists can manage the audio materials in their collection for preservation/restoration and accessibility.

Field Museum

In February of 1958, two men began months of dialog discussing a collection of artifacts from the Pacific Islands, which had been donated to the Field Museum of Chicago, Illinois. Read More

Chicago Sun Times

Technology is bringing to life an enthusiast's collections of Pacific artifacts. In a throwback version of the Nixon tapes, the enthusiast... Read More

WRVA Radio Contract

As the "Voice of Virginia" for over eight decades, WRVA Radio amassed a substantial number of sound recording including almost 318 hours of newst... Read More

BBC Radio

Cutting Archival Labs was featured on two special radio documentaries about sound preservation Oct. 6, 2004 and Oct. 13, 2004 at 9 P.M. on BBC... Read More