Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES) is hosting a TEC Tracks panel entitled “Preserving and Future-Proofing Your Creative Content” at the upcoming 2023 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center the Audio Room (202A) 10:00 to 10:50 am on Friday, April 14.
The panel includes George Massenburg (multi-GRAMMY Award-winning producer, engineer, educator, inventor and designer), Chuck Ainlay (multi-GRAMMY, ACM, CMA, and TEC Award-winning producer/engineer) and Kelly Pribble (director of Media Recovery Technology at IMES). Sarah Jones (industry journalist and committee member for the Recording Academy’s standards document Delivery Recommendations for Recorded Music Projects) will serve as moderator.
Whether creative work was recorded on analog tape or digitally to a hard drive, preserving these recordings is paramount for future playback. This session will look at the practical and technical considerations for long-term archiving, various media storage methods, best practices and future catalog monetization.