well, it's there to be heard and it's always promotion for you..

and you're right, when you do it yourself you can make sure the levels are right and don't get a horrible recording, that's one thing I hate also, when someone records your live set, and it's all distorted, like the dogma live act I did, when I soundchecked it was crystal clear on the soundsystem, ended up sounding a little too distorted on the final mix that went on the net, it was ok, but that's one time I don't want it to go online, when it sounds shitty, as it reflects badly on your production.. it's hard to get it right unles you're keeping a very close eye on the levels, and you've got aa limiter on there, I mean I take my DBX compressor everywhere I go these days which helps a bit, but recording digitally, you have to give it a fair bit of headroom... it's also really cool to be able to use the gate also, so you can do some gating on the fly, especially with jerky jacking stuff....