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Originally Posted by Doug Young
Just to sound like a broken record :-), this was the point of the exercise I suggested. Go thru that process of trying to replicate a reference recording you like, and identify what is missing, then you'll have a good idea of what (if anything) you need to upgrade.
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I have certain reference recordings (for example some by Gerhard, Huttlinger, Emerson) I really like the sound of. I have done some tweaking pre and post recording to try and approach those sounds. Of course it never quite does. I don't know that it should even given that I am recording on a different guitar. For example, just to give an extreme case, trying to match up to the sound of a classical guitar recording when I am playing a steel string. But of course I know what you mean in general. Lately I am happy to get a recording that sounds to me like the guitar I am recording, that I can go back later and listen to and not have to just guess what guitar I was recording since much of the character of that particular guitar was lost in the recording process. I like to listen back and think, wow that captured that guitar's character. Now post recording I may want to tweak things for a bigger than life sound, but at least at the start there was some accuracy to real life in the recording.