This blog is part of IMES’ “Protecting Legacies” series, featuring guest authors’ perspectives on archiving in pro audio. Kelly Pribble, veteran studio engineer, builder, archivist, and inventor, joins us as guest author for this blog.

This blog is part of IMES’ “Protecting Legacies” series, featuring guest authors’ perspectives on archiving in pro audio. George Massenburg, producer, engineer, educator, inventor, and designer, joins us as guest author for this blog.

This blog is part of IMES’ “Protecting Legacies” series, featuring guest authors’ perspectives on archiving in pro audio. Cheryl Pawelski, two-time Grammy® Award-winning producer, joins us as guest author for this blog.

This blog features Carrie Weber, an audio engineer in Boyers, PA about her journey into the world of Audio Archiving.

In September 2021, IMES created a survey, with input from the Recording Academy P&E Wing, with the intent to discover current trends and best (or worst) practices in audio archiving within the recorded music professional community. The survey was sent to 3,000 members of the P&E Wing and 11,000 subscribers of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Read the top-level findings.

This blog is part of IMES’ “Protecting Legacies” series, featuring guest authors’ perspectives on archiving in pro audio. Joe D’Ambrosio, CEO and founder of Joe D’Ambrosio Management, joins us as guest author for this blog.

Read how Dorian Bell and his team digitized oral histories and processed metadata outside of the standard format for the Military Women's Memorial on behalf of a new 2022 traveling exhibition entitled, “The Color of Freedom: Honoring the Diversity of America’s Servicewomen.”

This blog is part of IMES’ “Protecting Legacies” series, featuring guest authors’ perspectives on archiving in pro audio. Jeff Balding, Producer, Engineer and Audio Production Advocate, joins us as guest author for this blog.

Tape remediation expert Kelly Pribble dives deep into more tape remediation issues, including the “Spaghetti Western” and salt damage.

IMES’ VP of Technology Denis Leconte reflects on the thrills and chills involved with preserving a major artist’s legacy.

Ordinarily, scenarios like these would require multiple team members to spend hundreds of manual labor hours reviewing or tracking thousands of data points to complete the customer’s request. But using Python, we’re able to automate data mining requests like these to easily and efficiently deliver exactly what the client needs, at a tremendous savings of time and money to the client.

It’s time to start spring cleaning again. Although I don’t have an opinion about where you should store your snow shovels or old sports equipment, I do have one piece of advice as you start this yearly ritual: have you considered the condition of your family heirlooms? Do you know where they’re stored?

IMES' Director of Premium Archival Services, Hillary Howell, envisions the effective film archive of the future. She anticipates creators embracing digital preservation, but spending equal time and investment on the caretaking of the original physical media elements. Watch the video, originally shared for AMIA Spring 2021, to learn why she thinks it's critical to address both the digital and the physical in your archiving strategy.

Adhesion syndrome doesn’t appear to be any one's fault. This is not a storage issue; rather, this appears to be a natural degradation of the tape. The effects we are seeing are alarming, and if we're seeing it today, what's going to happen in the next 10 years? We’re able to recover these tapes today, but we just don’t know what the future holds.

We’re honored to play a role in bringing some of the GRAMMY Museum’s most iconic moments in the Clive Davis Theater back into the spotlight. In this, the second episode of the #LiveFromTheVault series, watch the incomparable Ringo Starr in a 2010 interview with GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli.

Mold on tape is pretty easy to fix once you know it’s there, but it is a problem that needs to be addressed for long-term viability of the precious media assets.

The GRAMMY Museum and IMES will curate specific archived videos as part of a new series, Live From The Vault, which takes fans inside the vaults of some of the Museum’s most iconic programs, showcasing rarely seen footage. Mavis Staples will be the first artist featured from her 2010 program in the Museum’s Clive Davis Theater, released on the Museum’s official streaming service COLLECTION:live with free access to all viewers.

Get proactive with hard drive preservation while older drives are still viable and legacy tools are still available to facilitate the process.