About RAAAD

RAAAD is a take on the code used by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). When CDs were first being sold, the RIAA created a labeling system to mark which albums were truly 100% digitally recorded, or if they involved any type of analog (A) signal path before being transferred to a digital (D) format...

Why Do This?

There are a few reasons:

• Preserve history of the recording process of ALL analog albums

  Though documentation of recording exists for some albums, there is not a central source that archives knowledge of every analog album ever created...

• "Fake" analog releases

  Analog formats have surged in popularity in recent years. Despite this, many analog releases have not been made with an end-to-end analog signal path...

• Cataloging obscure releases

  Though vinyl pressings are generally well-documented on other sites, many albums have a history of being released on other analog formats...

• Prevent bootlegging

  Many bootleg tapes (often from a recorded digital file or vinyl record) of albums exist...

• Help new artists

  There has been an increasing amount of artists going "DAWless" leading many to record their releases on analog formats...