If I had a bunch of awesome boutique amps...

[AnnihilationRob]

Help me figure out if this idea will fly. Say I had the following list of amps at my disposal:

JCM 2000 DSL
Peavey 5150
Peavey 6505+
Orange Rockerverb 50
Mesa Dual Rectifier
Fender Twin Reverb
Fender Bassman
Reeves Super '78 50 Watt
Vox AC30
Framus Cobra
Krank Krankenstien
Bogner Uberschall
Diezel Herbert
Engl Fireball
Soldano Slo
Ampeg B-15

How many would be interested in reamping through my gear? I posted a poll thingy^^^

[NEWTON IN ORBIT]

That would all depend on how good you were at miking amps.

Reamping is the easy part.
Miking the amp and getting the sound in a great room is the more difficult end.

Sound examples would be the way to go here I think.

I wouldn't be personally interested, as I have a studio, and clients.
I bet some bedroom guys might though, the type cats that would also use drummers over the web.

Good luck in your endeavor,
john

ps I chose too much hassle, because there was no good answer that fit my situation.

[AnnihilationRob]

Thanks for the response! I would certainly have sound samples posted of each amp I owned recorded through my gear. I guess I'm really trying to figure out how many people like one or more of these amps better than their own, and would be excited enough about using them to actually send me their files and throw me like $20 to do it.

[Aeolian]

Based on the list of amps, I'm guessing you're working in a fairly narrow genre. And that most of the folks who would want to play through those would either have one themselves or wouldn't be able to pay enough to cover the cost of acquiring that stable.

When I saw the title, I thought of someone having a Trainwreck (or at least a Komet), a Dumble, various Divided by Thirteen, Eddies old Plexi. And things of that sort. People would pay real money to come and record or be reamped through that. How much money there is in various flavors of jars of bees I'm not so sure.

[AnnihilationRob]

Damn I've never even heard of those lol. Any clips online?

[NEWTON IN ORBIT]

Originally Posted by AnnihilationRob

Damn I've never even heard of those lol. Any clips online?

Yeah he's right. A lot of what you posted might not any longer be considered "boutique". Furthermore, most are geared towards hard rock and metal.

Howard Dumble, try googling it. Think Eric Johnson etc.

good luck man,

j

[wesarvin]

If I didn't already have pretty good gear, I'd take up the offer. Realize that Michael Wagner is offering the same service. Tough competition...although you can always undercut your competitors...

[fretless]

huh..no Trainwreck clones ??? Oh wait...

[django]

Originally Posted by AnnihilationRob

Help me figure out if this idea will fly. Say I had the following list of amps at my disposal:

Fender Twin Reverb
Fender Bassman
Vox AC30
Ampeg B-15

These are generally the only really intresting ones to me, the others seem like a bunch of high gain fizzle amps. Although even if you have these people who generally have the budget to be paying for reamping are most likely already going to have access to these types of amps

[AnnihilationRob]

I'm definitely a hard rock and metal guy so I guess I'm leaning toward these types of amps because of that. Seems to me like reamping is almost required today in these genres. I don't remember the last time I heard a metal record that wasn't reamped.

Originally Posted by django

...people who generally have the budget to be paying for reamping are most likely already going to have access to these types of amps

Seems to me like reamping would be way cheaper than buying an amp for 3-4k. Charging 5 bucks per minute of audio would cost a band like $300-400 for a whole album. On my end, an amp could pay for itself after 10 or so albums. I guess I can't really tell if I'm being too optimistic about my little business plan.

[AnnihilationRob]

Originally Posted by wesarvin

Realize that Michael Wagner is offering the same service.

Who is Michael Wagner? I can't find this service online.

[django]

Originally Posted by AnnihilationRob

I'm definitely a hard rock and metal guy so I guess I'm leaning toward these types of amps because of that. Seems to me like reamping is almost required today in these genres. I don't remember the last time I heard a metal record that wasn't reamped.



Seems to me like reamping would be way cheaper than buying an amp for 3-4k. Charging 5 bucks per minute of audio would cost a band like $300-400 for a whole album. On my end, an amp could pay for itself after 10 or so albums. I guess I can't really tell if I'm being too optimistic about my little business plan.

dunno dude, you could get a few of those amps you listed for $400. i'd get way more specalist stuff if i was doing reamping

[wesarvin]

Originally Posted by AnnihilationRob

Who is Michael Wagner? I can't find this service online.

One of our moderators. He's also an incredible teacher and engineer.

I'm not sure if he's doing it anymore, but you can contact him. He rented out his "wall of doom" for a while.

I spelled his name wrong, it's actually Micheal WagEner.

Here's his site:
Michael Wagener.com

Here's his reamp service:
Michael Wagener.com realamp