Shealesy

Its a brilliant amp. And you're also getting a compressor/noisegate in the deal

Lol as i said if i had the money and a need for it it would be mine in a snap. You can keep the 3630 though, they make great paper weights/doorstops etc.

Maybe in a few months after the priority buys (new car/life etc) i'll see if you've still got it

so much want! so little money! and... really no use unless i find a band to play in... and you change your mind about the 6x10. But alas. Financial B*****KS

Dude, I justify having a stingray, a us precision, a modified jap precision and a jazz special and never play them I was even close to buying a power jazz special last night too!!

I think we can safely say Spoonie has too much money.

I can justify keeping my Jazz V Deluxe and my Jap 4 sting Jazz gaining dust, and i cant even afford a tank of petrol this week!

yes, a mobile rig that can be set up at any location the performer needs it. I suppose a service could be provided tapping out of someone else's live desk but what's the point of that cos they can use their own 2 track anyhoo. so good and therefore expensive soundcards would be a must and pre amps to match then!

With regards to this post, yes the foh engineer can just plug laptop a laptop into some relevant spare outputs on his desk, or have one of those all in one "2 mics, some storage and a record button" gadgets that they just sit on the desk, but the downside to these methods is the mess-with-it factor afterwards is greatly reduced, all you can really do is EQ, compress, and crank the gain up, you cant pull out the naffed up guitar solo and re-record it, or tweak the very out of tune singing. Great for post gig review, bad if they want something decent for their myspace or a live ep.

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A fair few of the venues around aberdeen have facility on the desks to take more than just the stereo mix to a recording device, for example, on venue has a luuuvly big midas console, with the right connector loom (XLR on desk) you can take a seperate output from every single channel, thus having everything seperate (switchable pre and post desk fader, insert and EQ) for maximum mess-with-it factor. Alternatively you can take group outputs (XLR i think, dont quote me) and take sub mixes, such as a stereo mix of the drums, a stereo mix of guitars, a mono feed from bass blah blah blah.

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I wont go on, my fingers are hurting from the typing. Suffice to say, if a band wanted a live recording of their gig, their are a number of routes to go down depending on the venue and budget and time available.

Though it must be said, i did think of offering these option to bands as extra cash on the side as im there anyway, and still might buy some toys in the future, but what i figured i needed would have been transportable by bus and train, as it basically consisted of a decent laptop and a 4U rack with some MOTU outboard soundcards and jizz in it. Rucksack and Rack recording studio.

Thats longer than i thought it would be, but being a uni project, theres no such thing as too much information. All fine in theory, though the van may be a bit too much, rucksack and rack then mix down in bedroom/acoustically treated garage/car (sounds bad? i got highest grade in class for that mix at college )

Hope this helps

Shealesy