I certainly could record wet/dry together, but I guess I wasn't clear - this is improvised music, where I'm changing FX the entire time - i.e. I am 'playing' the fx as much as the guitar - so, during the course of a 'song', I may change MANY settings - cutting stuff in and out, changing its level in the mix, changing its fundamental qualities (delay time etc.) via expression pedals, using X/Y on the fx etc. - no way to reconstruct that later - this is not traditional verse/chorus/bridge song building, this is ambient and post-rock, built on the fly, often in concert with others, sometimes with overdubs, sometimes not, sometimes with a click track, sometimes not. For what I do, I need a quiet device. But EVEN if I was doing 'traditional' dry recording as you say, it is still hard to do critical listening when adding the fx in later on when the fan is masking part of the sound! How am I to effectively adjust a delicate reverb tail if the end of the tail disappears in the fan noise from my PC and my AXE? If you're a stickler, like I like to believe I am, you cannot. Same with critical EQ adjustments. Every pro audio piece I've had in the past, includuding my eventide, my amek console, API lunchbox etc. was either dead quiet (i.e. no fan) or very quiet (i.e. massive heat sinks, slow fan). Yes, I know the AXE has 2 hot processors in it, among other things, but I'd still bet dollars to donuts that a passively cooled, or nearly so version could have been/could be engineered with an end cost that was not significantly higher.
