The Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) will hold its newest online presentation this Thursday, August 18 (tomorrow) beginning at 12 pm U.S. EDT titled “The Challenges and Wonders of Preserving Legacy Recordings” with presenter Kelly Pribble, director of media recovery rechnology at Iron Mountain Entertainment Services. Register for this free event here.
Original master recordings from well-known artists and labels like Bob Dylan, RUSH, Mariah Carey and SUN Records face a myriad of natural degradation and storage-related issues that are threatening irreplaceable analog recording archives. Legacy digital tape recordings, many on short-lived and now all-but-obsolete formats, have their own concerns.
Pribble will discuss the challenges encountered in preserving master recordings to avoid the possible permanent loss of these legendary resources. He’ll also address the monetization of archived recordings and how technology can help.
A veteran studio engineer, studio builder, archivist and inventor. Pribble was issued a patent in March 2022 for Media Recovery Technology. Before joining Iron Mountain, he reopened the legendary Nashville “Quadrafonic Sound Studio” in 1988, and the next year, he purchased the building next door and built an additional three studios, providing Nashville with its largest recording complex at that time. After more than a decade of running Quad Studios,
Pribble left Nashville for London, where he worked closely with record producer Martin Terefe. Together they built “Kensaltown Studios” in West London, an eight-studio complex that still thrives today as one of West London’s premier studio locations. With a career spanning over three decades, Pribble has worked extensively in Nashville, London, New York City and Rio de Janeiro.
Again, register for this free event here.
