Anaheim, CA (April 4, 2023)—Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES) has introduced an all-star TEC Tracks panel, “Preserving and Future-Proofing Your Creative Content,” on the upcoming NAMM Show on the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Friday, April 14, 2023.
The panel will happen within the Audio Room (202A) from 10:00 to 10:50 a.m. PDT on April 14. The all-star panel contains 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 restoration know-how at IMES). Sarah Jones (famous business journalist and committee member for the Recording Academy’s requirements doc Delivery Recommendations for Recorded Music Projects) will function moderator.
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The announcement notes: “Whether your newest inventive work was recorded on analog tape or digitally to a tough drive, preserving your recordings is paramount for future playback. Analog tape has its personal issues, however we’re shifting into an age the place mainly each bit of data for the reason that Nineteen Nineties in the end lives someplace on laborious drives. And these laborious drives will, inevitably, fail.
“What this implies is there’s a sure chance that some or all of our info will basically evaporate and be misplaced ceaselessly. There is an actual concern that we are going to encounter what is known as a “digital black gap” of media from, say, the late Nineteen Nineties by way of the early 2010s, when extra creators grew to become wiser and fewer careless about their backup routine. This session will take a look at the sensible and technical issues for long-term archiving, numerous media storage strategies, finest practices and future catalog monetization.”