CCM Studios is definatly setup to preserve albums and precious vintage recordings. 
CCM utilizes many restoration tools
and plug ins such as Emagics Waveburner and Steinberg’s Wavelab. With award winning plug-ins from Waves, sound restoration and LP preservation is simply a flawless task for this Denver based studio.
Digital recordings of an analogue source are made by sampling the analogue waveform and converting 
each sample to a numerical value. This process is known as analogue to digital (A/D) conversion. Note, the quality of the end result is determined by the number of bits used to express each sample value, and also by the rate at which the samples are taken. The CD audio standard specifies 16 bits per sample and a sampling rate of 44100 samples per second. 16 bits allow for a range of 216 (65536) possible amplitude values and each sample has to be assigned to one of these 65536 steps.
Because the A/D converter only uses a finite number of steps, it is important that the analogue signal is presented at an appropriate amplitude if optimum results are to be achieved. If the signal is too small, the higher order bits will never be turned on and thus you may end up with only a 12 or 13 bit recording. Conversely, if the signal is too large, the A/D converter will be unable to assign a value to some samples because they are outside its range of possible values. In this case digital clipping occurs which is a severe form of distortion.
