How to help a muddy guitar sound — part II

Yesterday, I shared some ideas for how to fix a muddy guitar sound in the mix.

However! If you have the option to help the guitar sound better on the way in, that’s always better than recording a bad sound and then trying to fix it later. So today, some quick ideas for that:

1. If your interface has it, use a hi-Z input, as opposed to using a line-level inpu…