Yes Chris, Youtube compress the sound to save space. They effectively throw away the quality that you work hard to record.Many thanks for listening in Willem, Tom, Al, Bob, Craig, Dean, Marc and Michele,
As for the sound quality.... hmmm. The wav file and the mp3 file I can play on my laptop is crystal clear but making an AVS movie and uploading to YT has seriously mangled the sound you are hearing here on my post. Its like I have uploaded through a pool of mud!
So I have decided to join soundcloud which I have seen others using (Pete just uploaded his The Woman Who Murdered Love there and I think Buddy uses it too. In future, I will upload sound tracks there and link here to have a much better sound. We didn't do a movie as its a lot of additional work which doesn't add to the sound we made, in fact, it detracts big time when these videos are mixed and uploaded to YT.
Tom N.