Topic: taper's guide

[Sanjay]

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.   

alright i'll take the ball and run with it, it'll be out of town a bit this week and next but i will be happy to do it.  Should I start a thread seeking input for different parts of it?  I wouldn't want to copy straight out of the faq, and besides thats prob not enough.

[DCDireWolf]

I think the first step is to decide on a chapter structure, whether we want to go with Humbug's great suggestion without altering it, or put it up for discussion and tweak it.  Once we've got basic agreement on chapter layout, we can divide up the work by chapters to make sure that one or two people aren't burdened with all the work.

My two cents.

[Humbug]

A few random thoughts:

-keeping it free will make it easier to get contributions from people / permission from external websites etc

-Set up a separate sub forum on here with the following format:

Chapter 1 - Draft (moderator only)
Chapter 1 - Contributions (open to anyone)
etc

A moderator is assigned for each chapter, or multiple chapter, and is responsible for monitoring contributions and making the draft.

-By the way the chapters in my message above were only a suggestion.

I have been involved with a project like this before - I am partially responsible for setting up and maintaining a setlist database.

Is this too complicated?

[Sanjay]

It might be better to have one person organizing the layout and putting the final pieces together and one in charge of each section, that way the people with expertise oversee the individual parts and then one person is putting it together to maintain continuity.

[DCDireWolf]

-Set up a separate sub forum on here with the following format:

Chapter 1 - Draft (moderator only)
Chapter 1 - Contributions (open to anyone)
etc

A moderator is assigned for each chapter, or multiple chapter, and is responsible for monitoring contributions and making the draft.

This sounds about right.  I hereby volunteer to moderate for a non, or less, technical chapter. 

[Brian]

Skalinder ...... don't be hating

[Sanjay]

I will volunteer to put it together for continuity and such and moderate a lesser chapter if needed. 

[Sanjay]

here is a layout I came up with:  I just modified the one that was posted earlier, let me know what you think.  I think if we had one mod in charge of each chapter and possibly subchapter and some person contributing a piece on their particular set of mics it would be good.

Intro by someone pro-taping (I have an idea but i'm not sure if i can pull it off)

Chapter 1: So you wanna be a taper?  mod:____________
Chapter 2: General definitions, basic stuff to know, taper friendly bands, stealth vs. open, bootlegging vs.taping.  mod:____________
Chapter 3: Equipment choice (Based upon level of $ to spend, discuss beginner rigs, with user ratings, suitability for stealth or open taping, approx cost etc)  mod:____________
   subchapter: mics (I would like to see users of different mics writing a paragraph or two, w/ or without pictures discussing how they like each one)
   subchapter: decks (same deal as above)
   subchapter: preamps and phantom power (same deal as above)
   subchapter: cables
   subchapter: stands, t-bars, ect.
Chapter 4: Being nice to tapers (patching)  mod:   yemncsu
Chapter 5: Being nice to soundmen (SBD)  mod:____________
Chapter 6: Technique (How to pick the sweet spot, mic configuration, levels, monitoring, troubleshooting)  mod: S_TL-Taper   Assistant mod:____________
   subchapter: how to find the sweet spot
   subchapter: mic configurations
   subchapter: setting your levels and monitoring
   subchapter: troubleshooting: what to do when something goes wrong
   Chapter 7: The Audience (subtitle: your biggest enemy and your friends)
Chapter 8: How to stealth a recording  mod:____________
Chapter 9: Matrix techniques  mod:____________
Chapter 10: The future (24 bit etc)  mod:____________
Chapter 11: Mastering (discuss different software and the basic do's and don'ts when mastering a recording  mod:____________
Chapter 12: Spread that recording!   mod:____________
   subchapter: shn
   subchapter: flac
   subchapter: bittorrent
   subchapter: web resources to spread recordings (archive.org, bt.etree.org, sharingthegroove(not the most popular choice)

Appendix 1: Stories from the field  mod:____________
Appendix 2: History of 'bootlegging' and how it became live taping  mod:____________
Appendix 3: Equipment mods and Taper DIY (description of how to mod equipment (digimod ua-5, gain knobs on the dmic, NJB3 batts, ect)  mod:____________
Appendix 4: Archival and storage information.  mod:____________

[yemncsu]

Id be willing to throw in a few hours on this.  I could help with almost anything except for stealth recording.

Josh

[DMaCATO]

I wouldn't mind helping out if there is anywhere I can fit in. I think being a newbie to the taping scene is very fun and exciting. I am getting ready to make my own cables so I could help out in that area. I will be documenting the whole project here at work with digitals.

I am also going to mod the UA-5. I don't have any other experience, but let me know. I think this is a great idea, it took me forever searching through the old threads/FAQ's to find all the info I needed.

Drew.

[Brian Skalinder]

Alright, no more hating.    Looks likea good start, everyone...keep it up! 

[Sanjay]

Id be willing to throw in a few hours on this.  I could help with almost anything except for stealth recording.

Josh

well find an area that you like or wouldn't mind researching and lemme know

I wouldn't mind helping out if there is anywhere I can fit in. I think being a newbie to the taping scene is very fun and exciting. I am getting ready to make my own cables so I could help out in that area. I will be documenting the whole project here at work with digitals.

I am also going to mod the UA-5. I don't have any other experience, but let me know. I think this is a great idea, it took me forever searching through the old threads/FAQ's to find all the info I needed.

Drew.

would you be comforatable writing about either shn, flac, or bit-torrent?

[yemncsu]

If it were my choice, I would like Chapter 2,3,4,6, or 10.

Josh

[Sanjay]

If it were my choice, I would like Chapter 2,3,4,6, or 10.

Josh

i just picked a random number out of a hat, so how does chapter 4 sound?

[Brian]

excellent stuff guys , +t's all around.  I'll chime in whereever I can or where people want me too.  like an editor or something, you know, to make sure that what is being added is actually correct   or is that what you're doing? hell i don't know, just let me know where i can help!