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Inside Iron Mountain Film & Sound Film & Sound Welcomes Jay Bonica as General Manager Iron Mountain is proud to welcome Jay Bonica as the new General Manager for Film Sound East, including locations in Moonachie and Little Falls, NJ as well as Nashville, TN. Jay has been with the Film & Sound family since 2005, focusing on Account Management for some of our largest accounts in the New York market. Prior to joining Iron Mountain, Jay spent many years as President of Fort Lee Film Storage. Film & Sound Catches Olympic Fever As the Summer Olympics come to a close, one thing is clear; athletes who compete at this elite level understand the need for focus, determination, preparation and execution. Recently, one of our own “Mountaineers” was interviewed by the La Purisma newspaper to talk about his Olympic experience during the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Guy Abrahams, senior sales representative with Iron Mountain Film & Sound, brings the same focus and determination to his work each day as he did while competing in the 100 meter finals some 30 years ago. Guy commented during his interview that “hard work and perseverance pays off in the end”. His daily practice routine was always with an eye towards each upcoming meet and he noted that “meaningful preparation leads to solid execution”. Guy went on to say that the pride he feels each day in being a former Olympian assists him in his role at Iron Mountain. “Competing at that level even 30 years ago, gives me the focus and drive I need to succeed each and every day”, said Abrahams. Iron Mountain Film and Sound Expands Its Services with Xepa Digital Studios Now known as Iron Mountain/Xepa Digital Studios, the new company can transfer media from any vintage analog or digital Audio/Video or graphics format. Once converted to files, they can then be migrated to modern media formats for either production or long-term preservation. Every effort has been made to ensure that the array of vintage playback equipment at Xepa is complete, and that our digital capture capability is “best in class.” IM/XDS provides the access and speed needed in today’s production environment, and we offer our clients the experience of our top engineering staff to restore and preserve the contents of media archives and libraries worldwide. Assets on outdated formats or precious footage on media that is literally falling apart are restored to their peak performance level and then captured on archival-quality modern physical storage formats as well as on uncompressed, highest resolution archive-compatible digital files. Film & Sound Partners with Concord Music Iron Mountain Film & Sound assisted the Concord Music Group in the transfer of the entire Fantasy Records archives from the Bay Area to Hollywood in the latter half of 2007. Jonathan Bender, Senior Vice President Operations & Digital Media had this to say about the experience, "Iron Mountain Film and Sound provided a complete solution for us in the move of our Fantasy Archive from the Bay Area down to LA. The physical move itself was efficient and well organized. Despite the age and fragile condition of some of the tapes, the scanning and data entry into our new database went smoothly. Access to our assets has been quick and easy, and Iron Mountain staff have been more than helpful. A job well done." Iron Mountain/Xepa Digital Studios Mixes for Guitar Hero and Rock Band Deep in the vaults at Iron Mountain lives the music of Bon Jovi, Tom Petty, Kiss, and many others, now regularly echoing through Iron Mountain/Xepa Digital Studios and the tunnels of the "underground". Three hundred feet beneath the farm country of Pennsylvania, their huge hits are being systematically re-mixed for the “game market” and other ancillary revenue generating projects such as TV commercials and movies. "This is something we were prepared for from the beginning," said Claus Trelby, General Manager, Iron Mountain/Xepa Digital Studios, "but we had no idea how important it would be. We now regularly supply Universal Music Group with these special mixes from the 'Underground' as it’s sometimes called, and our East and West Coast IM/XD Studio locations." Leading video game producers are licensing large volumes of stem mixes (mixes identical to the original but with some instruments such as the lead guitar, lead vocal, bass, etc. mixed and delivered separately) from our clients. This enables the “game player” to pick his instrument and join in as part of the original hit to be rewarded with cheers if he does well, or loud boos if he fails to measure up. Good for our client, good for us, and based on the sales numbers, lots of fun for those wannabe rock-stars. Due to the foresight of Paul West, Senior VP of Studio Operations and Vault Services at Universal Music Group, in choosing to systematically restore and preserve multi-track masters as well as stereo from the beginning, the company is perfectly prepared to respond to the ever-increasing demand for this re-use of their archival material. Instead of pulling the old multi-tracks, probably baking them, putting them up for playback, repairing dry splices, etc. etc., Xepa simply spins up a hard-drive containing the same content already preserved in a high-resolution archival-quality digital format and completes the order. A job that would otherwise have taken days now takes hours instead. Hindsight may be 20-20, but foresight wins out every time. |
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