Either I am looking at the wrong forum site, or hallucinating, or else
they changed Recording.org around??

Didn't they used to have some DIY subjects/threads there??
I seem to remember posting stuff about ribbon mics and people buying
condenser mic elements from China??

Perhaps I'm confusing this site with another?? (probably)



Signed,

Confused again...

_-_-bear

Not really... RO has maintained pretty much the same content for quite some
time. There are a couple manufacturer's forums that have disappeared, but
other than that... I moderate the acoustic music recording forum there and
it has maintained quite a bit of activity and hasn't changed at all since it
opened about a year ago.

--Ben

--
Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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"BEAR" wrote in message...
Either I am looking at the wrong forum site, or hallucinating, or else
they changed Recording.org around??

Didn't they used to have some DIY subjects/threads there??
I seem to remember posting stuff about ribbon mics and people buying
condenser mic elements from China??

Perhaps I'm confusing this site with another?? (probably)



Signed,

Confused again...

_-_-bear

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:50:09 -0700, "Benjamin Maas"
wrote:

Not really... RO has maintained pretty much the same content for quite some
time. There are a couple manufacturer's forums that have disappeared, but
other than that... I moderate the acoustic music recording forum there and
it has maintained quite a bit of activity and hasn't changed at all since it
opened about a year ago.

--Ben

I think it was a little over a year ago that the DIY or "Tech
Forum" or whatever-it-was-called board disappeared. As I understand
the story (which may not be accurate), someone wanted to save a
webpage he was looking at, had Windows Explorer save it, and it
started saving subpages or some such. Whatshisname the owner or RO saw
a bandwidth spike, got ****ed that someone was "stealing" his content.
and removed everything from the whole DIY board. There had previously
been some controversy about copyrighted schematics being
published/displayed online that manufacturers make available to
customers but don't generally distribute, so the owner (and someone
representing a manufacturer whose schematic was 'shared') already had
some problems with people on that forum.
As soon as the DUY board content was deleted, a few of the DIY
people started up other boards. This is the one most people finally
migrated to:

http://prodigy-pro.com/forum/

From what I've seen, there are a lot of the old familiar characters
over there.

At the time this had happened I was looking for a longist post I
had written months earlier on patents. I had no reason to save a copy
of my writings on my local drive (didn't think I'd want to get it
again, nor that it would go away).

Yes, that's most of the story...
However, there was a discussion between the TT people and RO webmaster
about a fee for the bandwidth costs and such and suddenly the TT
members couldn't get their pm's anymore except paying the fee...and
there was a hot discussion about the legal rights of the posters
concerning their own posts... (RO stated all intellecual properties
were gone to RO just by posting there...).
So we left RO and the webmaster took all the worthy knowledge of TT off
the net.
Meanwhile GroupDIY is more active than ever and nearly all information
could be reupped or reconstructed (however some is lost forever...)
Copyrighted schematics was NOT the main point.
More of a webmaster showing a bit of incompetence in handling a
difficult situation...(probably the most friendly way to say what
happened...)
A dark chapter of web history.
However RO didn't win anything by this brainless action...

Bear,

Either I am looking at the wrong forum site, or hallucinating

Well, both maybe, but you are not wrong either. :-)

I used to host an Acoustics forum there, but the RO priniciple and his main
sidekick developed, um, let's say "personality problems" so I packed up shop
and moved to MusicPlayer.com (run by the EQ magazine folks). Here's the
link:

http://www.musicplayer.com/ultimateb...ubb=forum;f=26

--Ethan