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Taper (concert)

0-8050-5847-8}}</ref> Audio recording, while not officially allowed until the creation by the band of a "tapers' section" behind the soundboard in the mid-1980s, was generally tolerated at shows and fans would share their tapes through trade. Taping and trading became a Grateful Dead subculture.<ref>Jonathon S. Epstein, ''Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World'', Blackwell Publishing, 1998

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Tapers generally do not financially profit from recording such concerts and record using their own equipment with permission from the artist. Taper recordings are commonly considered legal because the recordings are permitted and distribution is free. Taper etiquette strictly excludes bootlegging for profit. "Stealth taper" is a common term for a person who may furtively bring equipment into shows to record without explicit permission.

Although taping is usually done with microphones, often bands will allow plugging into the soundboard for a direct patch. Taping setups are generally portable, operating on high quality condenser microphones, phantom power, a microphone preamplifier and a recording device all of which are battery powered.

A common means of trade is by transferring the tape recording to a lossless digital format such as FLAC and sharing through an internet file share protocol such as BitTorrent with the assistance of a networking service such as etree.

References

Michael Getz & John Dwork, ''The Deadhead's Taping Compendium, Volume 1: An In-Depth Guide to the Music of the Grateful Dead on Tape, 1959–1974'', Holt Paperbacks, May 15, 1998, {{ISBN. 0-8050-5847-8
Paul L. "Pro" Pearson, Ph.D. [http://www.jambands.com/may99/levels.html Setting Levels "The music is what it’s about..."] {{Webarchive. link. (2008-10-12 ''jambands.com'' May 1999)

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