Topic: taper's guide

[DCDireWolf]

I'm surprised that in this day and age of desktop publishing and everyone having a book out, that no one has written a taper's guide to taping. 

You can find a large handful of books on sound engineering, music business, how to run sound for a band, etc., but to date, no enterprising taper has written a book about what people on this board do.

I think as a book explaining a culture, and as a how-to type book, a cheaply published guide could make some dough.

These are the kinds of thoughts that come to me at 11:00 am on a Monday on my first cup of coffee and no breakfast.

[John Kelly]

Actually one was written.
http://www.taperssection.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4237.0

[DCDireWolf]

Yeah yeah, i knew some smartass was going to refer me to that.   

Peace.

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

Better a Smart Ass than a Dumb Ass.

T

[marc0789]

the new stereo soundbook isn't bad. you get the techy stuff, not "how to get away with Phish Fob", but tells you a lot about patterns, reflections, configs., etc.

[DCDireWolf]

I have the Yamaha sound system handbook.  It's a few years old now (like 10), but it seems to be very good.

[Humbug]

Sod making money - why not start a project to put everything together in chapter format:

Introduction (by someone phamous and pro-taping)

Chapter 1: So you wanna be a taper?
Chapter 2: Equipment choice (with user ratings, suitability for stealth or open taping, approx cost etc)
Chapter 3: Being nice to tapers (patching)
Chapter 4: Being nice to soundmen (SBD)
Chapter 5: How to pick the sweet spot
Chapter 6: The Audience (subtitle: your biggest enemy and your friends)
Chapter 7: Matrix techniques
Chapter 8: The future (24 bit etc)
Chapter 9: Mastering
Chapter 10: Spread that recording!
 
Appendix 1: Stories from the field
Appendix 2: History of 'bootlegging' and how it became live taping

Index

And then just print it out and GIVE it to people?

How about it guys?

[jpschust]

id love to do it, however i ain't doin it for free :-)  the quantity of work it takes to build something like that is just too much for me to do it out of the goodness of my heart, but i have a large background in editing, writing, page layout- you name it in the publishing field chances are i've done it at some point.

[Brian Skalinder]

Sod making money - why not start a project to put everything together in chapter format:
[snip]
How about it guys?

Sounds great!  Thanks for volunteering - when can we expect the finished product?

[DCDireWolf]

It seems to me that the text, or at least a ton of it, could be written here, with a lot of member's contributions,an evolving thing like this forum already exists as, then it would be like a giant FAQ, add the parts that need outside folks added in, and then published.  Bam.

[Brian Skalinder]

It seems to me that the text, or at least a ton of it, could be written here, with a lot of member's contributions,an evolving thing like this forum already exists as, then it would be like a giant FAQ, add the parts that need outside folks added in, and then published.  Bam.

Sounds great!  Thanks for volunteering to author chapters and coordinate volunteers - when can we expect the finished product?

[DCDireWolf]

well, it's going to be quite an undertaking (as your sarcasm indicates ), but i'm happy to coordinate postings and manage volunteers and what not.  I don't feel comfortable contributing content because I'm a total newb and frankly just don't know much. 

[Sanjay]

I know that I am rather new at this, but I might be willing to spearhead a project like this and edit this.... Granted I would need alot of help from people around here as I don't know much some of the more technical aspects.  I guess I could use something to keep myself busy. 

[Humbug]

Hmm...at least I've got you guys thinking.

Brian if you honestly think that this type of collaboration would not work, then fine, but my guess is that a lot of the tapers here would be prepared to contribute time and information to this.

I guess the hard part would be coordinating the info received and resolving disputes.

I don't have a huge amount of experience either, but in my field, which is stealth taping, I could probably write a few paragraphs.

[Brian Skalinder]

Brian if you honestly think that this type of collaboration would not work, then fine, but my guess is that a lot of the tapers here would be prepared to contribute time and information to this.

Yeah, I'm sarcastic and cynical.    IME, lots of people proclaim their willinginess to help with such initiatives.  In practice, very, very few follow through.  Generally speaking, I find the only time something like this gets done is if one person takes the ball and runs with it - and I don't see anyone running.