Hayseed Dixie Taping Policy

For fans who have access to the technology, Hayseed Dixie encourages taping at our live shows, and the trading and sharing of these recordings afterwards. Our ONLY stipulation is that said recordings absolutely may not be used for commercial gain - just don't sell them, folks. That ain't cool and may result in an East Tennessee Ass-Whooping should we find out about it.

Regarding soundboard patches, unless it's a big festival, we really don't recommend it. Here's why: in a smaller club, the soundboard mix doesn't really sound like what's happening in the room because the mix engineer is ballancing against our stage volume. The vocals in a soundboard patch are always way louder than everything else, and you can never hear the mandolin (because he's bloody LOUD on stage) - and you do want to hear the mandolin later. Ultimately, we'll leave it up to the person running front of house sound that night as to whether they want to give you a patch, but keep in mind that audience tapes made with microphones always sound better.

Also, please do send copies of recordings you make to us, and tell us which device and microphones you used. We'll let our own ears decide if anything beats the Ampex Model 300 - up until now, we ain't heard nothing that does:

Hayseed Dixie
PO Box 60263
Nashville, TN 37206