At The Recording Session Vault, it is an important component of our mission to promote an understanding through education about how the great music of the past was created. While part of our mission is to write biographies of the people behind the music, feature articles about the great studios, and also to examine the technologies and to spotlight the companies that created them that have been so crucial to the development of popular music, it is also important to understand how the process of creating music actually worked, as well. With this educational series, we will explore the following two topics: how the process of recording worked and how and why the technologies that were so important to that process were utilized.