Bringing your Recorded Assets Back to Life

As you begin to preserve your recorded assets and migrate them from analog to a more secure digital format, you may find that a necessary first step is careful restoration.

Analog Restoration

Over the years, countless numbers of precious original recordings have suffered from improper storage, fluctuating environmental conditions or exposure to damaging elements. Whether they have been tucked away in a producer’s garage in Nashville, forgotten about in a New York City warehouse or buried in a desk drawer in Los Angeles, Iron Mountain’s audio and video archive restoration will bring your recordings back to life so they can be transferred and preserved as digital media.

First, your Iron Mountain team will conduct a physical inspection on your audio or video assets to determine condition, deterioration level and best steps for preservation. This process may reveal that additional restoration is not needed, and digital preservation can occur. In many cases, however, it will be necessary to bake the tape to ensure the oxide layer is sufficiently adhered to the plastic tape. Once complete, digital transfer can proceed.

Digital Restoration

Like analog recordings, digital tape can suffer from mistreatment or improper storage techniques. When this occurs, your Iron Mountain team will inspect your digital assets, use a freeze-drying process to rejuvenate the tape and then migrate to a modern digital media for preservation.