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@dooks
sorry jeez, just saw all of your impedance questions. i get confused by the series parallel thing as well. glad you figured it out in the end. and SCORE! btw. a free working cab in any condition is definitely not to be sniffed at.
spent all day in soup studios underneath the duke of uke shop yesterday recording my 6 piece folk/pop band in a live session sort of manner. it was more or less a live room recording but with a few close mics thrown in for tweaks in the mix later. the plan was to just bang though two takes of everything and move on.
although it was a success i think (we got 12 tunes done and i'm confident that at least half of them will be good enough to use) it was a bit of a marathon and i was shattered by the end of it. day started at 10am setting up in a very cramped and stuffy room. started recording at around 12:30, half an hour for lunch then straight though till 7pm.
i usually get a bit "htfu!" when people use being tired as an excuse for not playing well, but yesterday after 6 hours of total concentration (standing and singing and playing finger picked acoustic all day) i properly hit a wall. in the first (otherwise good) take of the last song of the day, i played and held a wrong chord towards the end. in the second take i started to stumble over words and because i'd lost the ability to "just play" (i was having to concentrate on what my fingers were doing which was putting me off). i then made the exact same mistake with the wrong chord at the end. on the third take my right hand just stopped working and started to cramp up and do weird repetitive things i wasn't asking it to do, which caused me to concentrate on that and fluff the lyrics again. time to admit defeat and call it a day.
i haven't listed to the rough mixes yet. going to do that at lunchtime. if any of them are passable i'll post them up somewhere this weekend.