View Single Post
  #3  
Old 2012-06-09, 12:42 AM
cicada's Avatar
cicada cicada is offline
Long Distance Runner
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: north of the medicine line
Re: Logistical Question about Bootleg Lists Online

When you record a show... that source is the master (some people call this "first generation" or gen1). If you and I were buddies in 1984, I might have dubbed a copy of your tape in the hotel across the street or maybe the next week at a party in your living room. That is 2nd generation. Now my roommate comes home from class and sees my tape, so he adds one more generation when he dubs a copy from me... he has a 3rd generation recording. And so on down the line. Analog recordings in my archives have so many generations in most cases (although I have some masters where I ran the deck and kept the tape).

We are so spoiled to now have access to lossless masters and low-gen transfers. Who would have imagined such a world!
Reply With Quote Reply with Nested Quotes