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After reading my own post i'm not sure I got it quite right, so here goes again.....The guitar is split out to all heads, via a great cheap little splitter/combiner (rane sm26). Each output has its own gain control. I usually try to set it for unity throughput. cabs are gobo'ed from each other and each cab is miked.(sometimes w/multiple mics) You can use any amp with any cab, alone or together. All these mic signals are run to separate pres and come up as insert returns on big ol' P+G faders at the console. I've juggled as many as 15 inputs. Labeling is critical!!! sometimes I'll add a room mic and catch some roar too. I find that its a very cool way to get lots of tones FAST. There are literally thousands of combinations. I often combine several paths into one 1176 (or for stereo 1178) channel and compress/eq together. I know it sounds like a lot of work, but when you get the whole thing happening, the player can get a lot of great sounding parts down quickly. Just yesterday, after spending some time dialing in a mesa road king, I hooked up an old yamaha POS solid state combo and added just a whisper (5%)of "papery mids" (which sounded like complete ASS by itself) and bussed em' together. Jawwws wass a droppin. The next time I have a serious "guitar fest" I'll shoot some pix.
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