So, what led to the muddy guitar tone? An enquiry, part II

Yesterday I shared that, in investigating the source of The Muddy Guitar Tone, I realized that the first issue was that the producer made a technical error in recording said guitar.

And that’s okay! We’re all learning, and sometimes we make mistakes. But it brings us to the more important point here, I think:

Recording a bad sound is fine — no harm, no fo…