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Originally Posted by jim1960
Blaming the guitar just doesn't hold up under scrutiny. There are thousands of records recorded with Martin dreads that sound wonderful. If you can't get a good sound out of a great Martin, the problem isn't the guitar. The problem may be the room or it may how the player is being mic-ed; but it's not the guitar.
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I've been a pro engineer for a very long time. I know what I'm doing. And I've been in many situations where a strummed acoustic guitar couldn't be isolated or miked from any appreciable distance without picking up unacceptable bleed. In those situations, a Martin dread is, let's just say, far from the best option.
As a session player, you can certainly show up with your D in a situation like that and place the onus on the engineer. "Here you go. I pitch it, you catch it." But the outcome is unlikely to be ideal. And the likelihood of your engendering disfavor among the others in the room will be high.