snow lizard
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ecc83 said:A 1073 on classical guitar Snow? Don't have one but I doubt an acoustic guitar would drive it hard enough to elicit much "attitude" and I have already said, mics can always be selected to EVERYONE'S taste? Same goes for pres I suppose.
Classical guitar and rock drums are not likely in the same production?
There's nothing genre specific about recording gear. Once you're at that level, either it makes the A list or it doesn't. 1073 is an interesting choice because of its reputation for classic rock, and also because of all the A list preamps some people have said the 1073 can start to sound hazy at higher track counts. I wouldn't expect a classical guitar to get to 16 tracks. Might sound nice and rich with a good Neumann or stereo ribbon in front of it though. If the preamp were something else along the lines of an Amek, Trident or API I'm not really sure how much difference it would make. The Amek would be on the more transparent side which some might have a preference for, but any of those preamps are capable of anything in the studio despite their differences in character. Selecting a preamp based on what you want to record, or picking flavours for certain things is an idea that began mostly on the internet. Back in the day, the preamps were based on whatever the console was, and they were all the same.
The mark of any good gear be it converters, preamps or whatever is when it doesn't get in the way of making great music. I think a lot of it has to do with phase coherence. Still, there's choices depending on what you like.
The caveat for anyone starting out is that they can have almost anything in the way of gear as long as it all works, but it takes a while learning and experimenting before it's the gear holding them back from making better recordings.