[Naagzh]

Hi! I won't track quiet stuff in the same room as my Macbook Pro because of the fan. No, I haven't figured out how to "throttle" it (not sure that it's possible, and probably not recommended). I did track drums recently with the 'puter in the room, but since drums are so loud it wasn't an issue (I was more concerned about click bleed and cupboards rattling). When tracking, I had a buffer of 64 samples, a few plugs open, while recording 10 tracks. The fan did NOT kick in (the CPU meter was quite low). For adding overdubs to a dense session with lots of plugs, though, the fan will kick in, so the amp or vocalist are always in an adjacent room.

I have overdubbed acoustic guitars, shakers and tambourines in the same room; I'm just careful to put my body in between the mic and the computer, and place the mic so that it's null faces the noise.

If I were to track an ensemble with it in the same room, it would probably be fine to just put a gobo between the laptop and the performers/amps.