One of the problems inherent in recording a guitar is that it is a wide sound source and somewhat different frequency content comes from different areas of it. Thus at any given point a microphone might be placed wavefronts coming from different areas of the guitar are out of phase with each other. Single mike guitar recordings sound thin, not like the guitar live. That may sit just fine in a mix but it is not so great by itself. You need two mikes and the ears operating in their phase space interpolations to get a fuller sound. A smaller area sound source, say a voice or trumpet, sounds much more natural recorded with a single mike. So with a guitar you start right off with this mishmash of wavefronts. Ultimately one is hoping for a unified sound that sounds like it is one full bodied instrument rather than a blend of two or more instruments.
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