Topic: Do You LISTEN to Your Tapes?

[zowie]

How many of you actually go back and listen to your tapes after the first time or two when you first record/edit/acquire them?

Some people not only have big collections, but big collections from single artists playing similar sets over and over (of course some don't).

Do you listen to them, or just collect for the sake of collecting, or something else?

[caymanreview]

i sure do alot of listening to my whole collection

[Brian]

i listen to almost every show i tape. especially the ones that get seeded to the net. however most of the concerts i download off of the internet i don't listen to all the way through before i end up archiving them to CD or HD. i figured that there will be a point in my life when i can convert all these shns and flacs faster than i download them all and it will be then that i can start enjoying ALL this music i have aquired
Brian

[Tim]

I don't even own a stereo

okay seriously, yeah I listen as much as I possibly can. for now I still listen mostly to my DAT collection (~600 or so) because it is better organized and easier to just throw on and play than my shn/flac collection.

I've spent the better part of today organizing all of my shn/flac discs, perhaps now I'll be more likely to grab the data discs, burn off audio copies and give them a listen.

what I really need are some big ass harddrives, load em with my shns/flacs's, play from my soundcard digital in to my DAC and out to my stereo...

[jlykos]

No, I don't listen to any of them.  I just like the way the CDs look all piled up in neat columns after I transfer the tapes.  I spent thousands of dollars on my rig to create these nice columns of music that I will never listen to.  Its like a really expensive piece of conceptual art.

[jpschust]

for me, by the time i transfer from dat or look stuff ive been working on in the studio for 2-3 weeks (often times more) i like to just set it aside for a few months and then come back to it.  a lot of times its just a situation of overkill, but i love coming back to stuff i did and reflecting on how it all happened

[Chuck]

I've got a 35 minute commute each way to work, so I burn CD-R's and listen in my car. I rarely listen to DAT's directly. I listen to DAT's only when doing the transfers.

[Brian Skalinder]

Its like a really expensive piece of conceptual art.

  :rotflmao:

As I've upgraded my playback system, I've really enjoyed going back and listening to my recordings using different gear and identifying what I've learned about the different recording gear combos I've used, how my playback system impacts my listening, and of course, just plain enjoying some of the fine music.

I have stacks and stacks of downloaded/traded CDRs, all of which I've listened to at least once, but there are plenty which just plain aren't very special and I likely won't listen to again.  I keep them because I'm a pack-rat.  All of my own recordings are special in at least one way - because I recorded them and attended the concert - even if they're real stinkers!!  And even those I'll throw in on occasion to try to figure out why they were stinkers, what I could have done better, etc.

[heath]

No, I don't listen to any of them.  I just like the way the CDs look all piled up in neat columns after I transfer the tapes.  I spent thousands of dollars on my rig to create these nice columns of music that I will never listen to.  Its like a really expensive piece of conceptual art.

[deep belly laugh}  +T

[Arglebargle]

Someday when I'm an old man maybe I'll have time to actually sit down and really listen to music again, but for now the live experience will have to suffice.

[cpclark]

usually listen to the actual dat when i am transfering, because i dont have a home deck yet, but i do listen to them at least a couple of times on my HD before they get archived and deleted.  i actually try to keep every show on my laptop harddrive instead of the externals i have for at least two months before it hits the external HD and doesnt see much play, but every once in awhile, now the cd-r's get play all the time

[Swanny]

I listen to my stuff everyday... Life would sure suck without music. I don't listen to all of the stuff I trade for, but do usually make a mix CD of good shows (which always gets scatched up.) I'll have to pull out some of my old 98 phish shows just too hear what they are like on my new soundcard it has twice the AD of a P1. Big hard drives are a must...

[nickgregory]

I listen to everything I tape...many, many times over...except for that damn Addison Groove Project first set I taped...that will never get listened to again

[zhianosatch]

I don't even own a stereo

That's the sad truth for me, Tim. My whole collection sits unused.

[MattD]

I don't even own a stereo

That's the sad truth for me, Tim. My whole collection sits unused.

*nudge nudge*

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