What makes a good guitar for recording purposes

[jim1960]

Originally Posted by Charlie Bernstein

Just play a guitar you like playing, and let the person mastering fit it into the overall mix.

The mixing engineer makes it fit the mix. The mastering engineer is generally dealing with the song as a whole and making more global adjustments (exception for someone doing stem mastering which is sort of like wearing both hats).

[dyna]

I have two guitars, a Gibson J-15 and a Martin 00-15m.
The Gibson is pretty hard to get to sit in the mix with
strange and sometimes downright ugly overtones here and there,
demanding a lot of EQ adjustments. I have tried different strings but it doesn’t help.

The Martin is a little darker but the EQ on that one is very even.
As a result my J-15 is my composing guitar and when time
to record I almost always prefer the Martin.

[Rudy4]

The "best guitar for recording" has a lot to do with personal preference.

I love John Leventhal's recorded guitar sound and he relates at 55:00 minutes in his Truetone Lounge interview his strong preference for the Guild M-20 when he's going to do studio work:

[zuzu]

I have found it matters little when the guitar is the primary body of the song. Find a great sounding guitar and try to capture it's voice. But on full band mixes, with electric guitars, bass, drums, maybe keys, etc., I find that guitars with strong fundamentals and less overtone are easiest to dial in. A maple bodied guitar is my weapon of choice.