This remnant will be replaced soon. The FAQ is back, with a new design! How can I tape if I don't own microphones? From: Pat Loughery (9-23-93): I'm considering the purchase of a DAT deck to tape at Phish and other shows, now that I've realized how fun it is to have live music around the house. What's the etiquette involved in patching into somebody else's deck who has a better setup than you? Or into a soundboard? Is it considered appropriate only to patch into somebody that you know, or can you just go up to a random taper or soundboard guy and ask him/her if you can patch into his stuff? From Max Erenberg (4-16-96): Tapers are very helpful with patches every one with a deac will get signal if it can be done... there is a little bit of protocol i guess you could say DATs are first on the chain ,, the dat decks with digital cables will be first on the chain then the DAT decks with standard analog cables then the Mini disk or analog tapers .. the reason behind this order is simple but let me explain,, there is no loss in quality when digital cqables are first everyone will have the exact same signal as the lead deck then the analoug cables ,, there is some loss of quality as you get further down the line but if you can hear the difference you have supper human ears or have eaten too much lsd. then the mini disks and analoug tapers becaus they have to flip there tapes so the possibility for a cut exists.. I have seen chanes of more than 10 decks being run off of one set of mic's, not necessarally in a chain but with some splitters ect,, all you need to tape is a deck and some cables.. please try to have the cables but if you don't i'm sure someone in the tapers section will try to loan you one or rig somthing out.. rember that the taping cummunity is a small tight nit bunch we know most of the other tapers and treat them as familly,, we are always glad to see new faces we just don't like asswholes,, If you have any question don't feel stupid to ask we all started at some point...also it is the responsibility and DUITY of the taper to get thoes tapes out into circulation at NO COST,, If we hear that you are selling tapes we'll try to make sure you never get another taper ticket or patch. Digital Patching equipment: &quopt;Battery for your deck. Digital coax cable. Depending on how fancy you want to get, you might also bring stereo mini->dual rca (for decks like the Aiwa HD-S1), tip/ring/ring/sleeve->dual rca (Denon DTR-80P), optical to rca converter box & 7-pin to optical connector (small Sony portables), etc.; but I'd stick with the first two (and maybe the trrs if you have a cheap source for them)." Seth Breidbart 11/26/97 via digiphish For technical information, see the dat-heads FAQ. "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." -- Willy Wonka" This page last updated February 03, 2007. All contents © 1992-2007 Ellis Godard. All rights reserved.