Probably the most interesting movie on the 'net.... Thanks!

Universal Music Group's master recordings fire was a deliberate cover up on their end. It happened in 2008, yet wasn't revealed until over a decade later.

That was really interesting and informative, thanks for the video tour Michael..cheers..✌

This is awesome, I haven’t had a chance to sit all the way through but bounced around enough times to see it twice lol. Thanks for making this!

Longest thing ive watched in years very interesting. Great work !!!.

Thank you for posting.

All movie studios even use that ex mine facility to store their original Masters prints of movies like the original print of the Wizard of Oz is there

I thought there was a fire and they lost everything?

@manolokonosko594

11 ай бұрын

Not everything, but a significant amount. There are probably safety copies and other backups, but you know how those snobbish analog purists are.

@trackingangle929

11 ай бұрын

@@manolokonosko594they lost less than what’s been reported. There’s a story on the Tracking Angle website about items said to have been lost but were not….

Could there be a cutting master of The Genius of Ray Charles that says "cut treble by 10dB at cutting"?

Thank you, it’s an exceptional visit, Universal is doing a good job for us. I was following the archives of Frank Zappa, family and Universal music, you will manage as best you can.

All I can think of is all that iron oxide flaking off over the years and the magnetic charge slowly dissipating.

@trackingangle929

10 ай бұрын

Scotch 111 is essentially bullet proof and sounds about as good as it did when it was first recorded on. The proof is on any of the Tone Poet series Blue Note reissues. Other tape formulations do require baking before playing but tape is far less fragile than you suggest.

Does universal music iron mountain tape vault has jackson 5 the jacksons and Michael jackson and new edition unreleased recordings too?

Oh Mikey this one sent shivers down

MIke I don't think those albums are going to fit in your basement, lol

Well done Michael. Who the hell dusts this place?

The amazing thing is that all that data I bet could be stored in a single storage device no bigger than a deck of cards. But that’s still the truth. Tapes ftw

When I was a freight pilot in the late 80s, I got paid $25 extra to deliver tapes to Columbia House in Terre Haute. I delivered Thriller to them.

So they don’t own any of those tapes ? They just store them for the owners. Then If they want to do a recording from original master tapes, they get the tapes from these guys ?

What a dream job to work there!

Very interesting. This is like watching a James Bond movie of the recording industry. An underground lab, control rooms with fancy equipment, top secrets and beautiful women. How cool is that?

A little long, but interesting!

I’m surprised they could bring those tapes out as they’re normally ‘too fragile to use’….well, unless someone like analogue productions pays a huge amount of cash 😅

i am so thankful the powers that be have done this

SO IS THIS WHERE THE FRANK ZAPPA VAULT ENDED UP ...

That thing about Adam Duritz from counting crows…i wonder if that was about recovering the satellites?

Johnny Carson's reels too

cgi or ai who can really say for sure?

Audiophiles are nerding out right now. Already over analyzing everything and leaving lengthy comments to show their intelligence about what they watched.

Did not realize that they do service in the music industry.. I just deal with their data storage, cloud … something cool

New edition was on rca.

far fucking out

Here's the conundrum: If a tape that is 40, 50, 60 years old stars to deteriorate, they would need to create a backup. They can either copy it to another analog tape, or they can digitize it. But when the album gets reissued in the future, no longer from the decayed original tapes, all audiophile purists will scream FOUL! to the heavens because it's "not the original tape". Worse still if its been digitized because "it lacks the warmth". In addition, it takes a lot of money, time and skilled people to back up those tapes.Who is going to pay for it?

@terrywho22

11 ай бұрын

Cool story bro.

@manolokonosko594

11 ай бұрын

@@cengeb absolutely true, but they can't throw out anything for a few reasons: (1) It's not theirs. (2) The tenant is sill paying rent. (3) Even if the tenant stops paying rent and they own it now, who's to know this may be worth a lot of money someday? (4) They trash it and then they get a big fat lawsuit, which they'll win but still end up with large attorney bills. Some of the albums shown on the original video (which is longer) are crap you still find in various thrift store bins all over the country, year after year. But who is really going to take the time to sift out the good from the bad? The only solution is to keep them in storage and someday when they all become public domain recordings, then they may be used by various small record labels to reissue that crap. I just don't see Universal reissuing most of that stuff now or ever, anyways.

@rickhigginson8546

11 ай бұрын

Just, who is to decide what should be kept, what should be discarded? "One man's meat is another man's poison." Cost $ to have a temperature & humidity controlled vault. It's been lamented that, say in the `90's, some labels, perhaps many, thought that Digital was so great, they converted their analog tape masters to the then, existing digital technology, & jettisoned the original masters. Digital conversion technology has improved, & IS improving. Paul McGowan at PS Audio is a good reference for Digital, `State of the Art.' I've developed some techniques in regard to saving, `rescuing,' worn, damaged physical magnetic tape. The originals are likely to have the best detail, fidelity. @@manolokonosko594

@Fluterra

11 ай бұрын

Digital sounds far worse than a great turntable or R2R. I have the best digital playback system available and it’s not really even close.

@rickhigginson8546

11 ай бұрын

@@cengeb I'm going to TRY to be Diplomatic {In a way, we're both right, correct!} In the 60's, 70's, I collected a lot of the commercial prerecorded reel to reel tapes. Most were on Acetate tape, because it's inexpensive, but not all. {Some of these tapes I found, in thrift shops, were from the 50's, excellent sound!} At this writing, 1960 is: 63 years ago. 1970, `only,' 53 years ago. {It's important that almost all of these tape, but not 100%, were on, `Low Torque Reels.'} These hold up very well. I kept most of these, near the floor in a closet in the middle of my house, a good environment. Since 1980. No. it's not, `Iron Mountain,' but it's also not the Universal Storage, North Hollywood, which had the terrible fire! Somewhat unpredictable, but MOST have survived well!

Hard to watch. Shaky camera is inexcusable in this day and age. Send a proper camera and operator next time you do something as potentially interesting as this. Poor miking with excessive background noise. Bummer.

More cellphone video....another headache

Are they preparing for a nuclear holocaust? LOL

Readers of the lost arch vault