Here's my short and simple rules for trading, I hope you find them fairly lenient whilst at the same time preserving the shows I trade for intact. If you are just interested in what stuff I'm looking for goto the bottom of this section.

NOTE: Until I get everything sorted out on my list, generations will not be listed correctly. This should only be a minor inconvienience and I hope to have them up within a few days, if you wish to inquire please feel free to mail me. Thanks.

1) If at all possible I try to only trade in lossless formats for obvious reasons but of course there are always exceptions to the rule. E.g. a certain show is only circulating with a lossy step in it's lineage or the lossy show is only available in a lossy format due to the master being destroyed or lost.

2) Do not not encode anything I send you to lossy formats. Do not sell anything I send you.

3) I'm ALWAYS open to B+P's due to having an?extraordinarily large amount of free time recently, as long as I have the show you can bet I will say yes to any B+P offer.

4) Always extract securely with EAC or equivalent, burn slowly (Personally I don't go over 8x but 12x is fine if thats the minimum your burner can do, just verify the disk after burning if you can), make sure you use DAO, and make sure?you?use a decent manufacturer's media (thanks to Rob @ http://db.etreedb.org/robkismet?for that link).

5) If we have not traded before and you contact first, you send first, especially on international trades (I am in England).

Stuff you should know

I burn blank Taiyo Yuden Unbranded 48x 80min/700mb CD-R's, if you do a little research on Taiyo Yuden CD-R's you will see they are of the highest quality indeed so no worries there.

I burn both?Audio and Data CD-R's in Nero on my Emprex Dual 8x?IDE1008 drive, and I guess I should mention that I extract all my cd-r's in EAC in Secure Mode and my drive has been configured thanks to AccurateRip. All my DVDR's are ripped in DVD Decrypter and burnt in Nero although I do on occasion use DVD Decrypter to burn and?I'm considering switching over to that permanently.

I burn?Maxell DVD+Rs manufactured by Taiyo Yuden. These also live up to the high standards that Taiyo Yuden have set for the CD-R Market. My burner accepts both - and + so either type of Media is fine only my preference is + media.
I burn DVDRs at 4x using?Nero Burning Rom?and my Emprex Dual 8x IDE1007 drive.

When mailing discs I package them neatly in protective paper sleeves (one disc per sleeve!) with a small note inside each one to identify the cd. I post bubble evenlopes, first class inland and airmail for overseas. I expect similar quality in return which seems only fair.

With that all said and done, I'm mainly out for any Auf der Maur shows I don't have and this is?a real priority, I will trade for anything and everything whether it be Audio/Video, Audience/Pro-shot, A C grade or an A grade, as long as it features Melissa the red haired vixen who's won my heart over then it's fine. I also trade Nirvana a lot (Mainly looking for DVD's at the moment but audio is good too), Black Sabbath, No Doubt and a couple of more I won't bother you with since you are most likely fed up of reading all this waffle anyway ;)

E-mail me sometime, I don't bite, at least not very hard anyway.