Picture of a ReAmp
Jeff Harris leads the meeting with background music as all attending members take their seats and prepare for the build. Soldering kits and necessary supplies are placed at each station. He gathers contact information for the attending members to make sure that everyone who has paid for a kit is in attendance and able to receive credit for their time. While Jeff goes over a short introduction, Oliver Abbott passes around their computer for attending members to receive outside hours credit through AES. During his introduction, Jeff goes over the purpose of a re-amp, to lower and translate line level signals into instrument level signals. For a more technical definition Jeff states "Re-amping is a process often used in multitrack recording in which a recorded signal is routed back out to the recording environment for further processing."
Realistically speaking, reamping has existed since the beginning of recording, just in another form. However, the process we commonly know as re-amping, as well as the term itself, didn't come around until roughly the mid-to-late 1960's. The actual Reamp device was registered as a trademark in 1994 by John Cuniberti.
Jeff begins going over the device that attendees will be building, defining the device as passive and showing a schematic on a projected screen for everyone to see. As building time starts, Jeff puts a diagram up on the projection with the exact supplies provided. With background music on, Jeff and other support technicians walk around while attendees begin the build. As attendees begin to finish their build, Jeff tests their re-amp kits to ensure they work before sending attendees home with their new re-amp!
As the night wraps up, Jeff says a final thank you to the attending members and excuses the build, noting it as a success!
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