It's even cooler when you are the only taper... Think about that.. you are the *only one* in the *world* who has this music.. That's pretty wild
I got into taping for a few reasons: I've always been into music as a musician, and my intent before droping out of college was to work for a while as a musician, and then get into studio work. Alan Parsons was always my hero in that regard. I never fulfilled that dream, but this is pretty close in terms of my satisfaction. I like the challange and, the feeling of being able to give back to the taping/trading community that I have been mooching off of for so many years.
My two favorite things about taping are what npsinboro said above, and the couple of times I've left a show with a group of friends, then stopped at my "home away from home" corner bar, plug into his PA and relive the whole show over, just an hour later... that is just cool!
My first rig was a behringer mixer, rode nt-5's, jb3, and every adaptor known to man. I started out wanting to only do matrixes and sbd patches.
Matt