moral of this story...keep the damn 463's, Steve!
Well, if there was a way to run them with active cables AND my mod'd bodies, I would keep them. I could do some experimenting and tinkering with the A61 swivel adapters and try to make them into an active unit of some sort... but I'm no audiophile gearhead....
when do you need actives? use the at's for stealth, the akgs for open. I can't think of one situation where you can't get away with full bodies fob or onstage here in town.
You're totally right.... the problem is, I see myself taping less and less as the years go by. I'm tired of seeing the same old bands.... I look at festival line-up's like Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, etc. and out of 100 bands listed there are maybe 2-3 I'd be excited to see anymore. How many times can I go see MMW, SCI, Mule... I've seen them all 7-10 times and barely listen to the shows I've got. I guess I'd like to hit more/other genre's of shows more often, but many of those bands don't allow open taping... thus, I wouldn't be able to use the AKG's anyway. I'd actually like to keep them for the principle... they're great mics and I love them... but if someone else can get some good use out of them, I'd rather unload them. Fwiw, Dean is considering buying them from me... so they'd still stay in the Twin Cities at least.