The Early Years – Post from the old threaded wwwboard
Archives 1 thru 12 contain home studio and audio recording tips from 2000
Archives 13 and 14 contain home studio and audio recording tips from the first two months of 2001

The Yabb Boards Posts from the first of the modern forums (Yabb).
This archive covers home and audio recording posts form February, March, April, May and June of 2001.
It is also when the Freedom Exchange first became part of the Recording Website so quite a few songwriting posts are in this archive as well.

Pre RID YabbSE Posts
Recording Website Archives late Feb. 2001 ro early March 2003. This was the second big move after changing from wwwboard to yabb. Yabb was based on cgi/pearl and the new forum software, yabbse was php based. Also, these posts were before RID (the Recording Institute of Detroit) took over the site.

There are two archives:
Recording Website Archives from late Feb. 2001 to Late October 2002
with 27955 Posts in 4792 Topics
Recording Website Archives from October 2002 to early March 2003
with 13294 Posts in 1760 topics

The Music Board
The precursor to the ‘Can We Talk’ and ‘It’s All About The Music’ boards.
Some very interesting discussions about music, performing and musical artists.

The name mp3 is an abbreviation for MPEG Audio Layer 3. MPEG stands for the Motion Picture Experts Group. These people have developed video compression systems which includes such formats as DSS, HDTV and DVD. MPEG Audio Layer 3 or mp3 is an offshoot of the video compression technology.

The compression used in an mp3 file is based on 3 things;

• Sometimes, one sound will mask another.
• We hear some sounds better than others.
• There are some sounds we can’t hear.

By eliminating these sounds from the original song file the mp3 format is able to shrink the file size down to about a tenth of the original.

So does the sound quality of the music suffer? Of course, but I believe the size savings is well worth it. And of course, the quality of the original recording will help determine the quality of the mp3 song file. But remember, we’re talking about putting songs on the net for others to download.

If you are streaming your audio you will have to consider bandwith, which can add up pretty quickly. And if you have your song available for download which song file do you think folks would rather download, a 3 minute wave file which is about 30 meg or a 3 minute mp3 which is about 3 meg.