miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
...arguments about getting an accurate recording of a "performance" and keeping it "pure"(a crock of stuff IMHO)...
To me, that's the funniest part about the OP's perspective. If I understood correctly, he's in a trailer of some sorts, trying to capture an acoustic guitar that by his own admission sounded brittle...and from there it was all downhill.
So any conversation he made after that about how EQ is a waste and you need to capture the perfect sounds from the start so you don't ever need EQ...is pretty comical. I mean, he's preaching and not even following his own preaching.
The reality is, that even in a perfect space with an instrument that has no obvious issues in that space...you will probably need to touch things up with EQ later on, especially when you are mixing a bunch of tracks together.
And speaking of that...that OP also went on to scoff at the notion that anyone would need a "staggering 20-30 tracks"...I mean what planet are you on?
Sure, recording purely an acoustic guitar and voice is fine...nothing wrong with just that, but there SO MUCH MUSIC out there that has way more than those two elements, great sounding music, some of it utilizing a hundred or more tracks.
I mean really, how much fucking acoustic guitar and vocal music can anyone listen to! I think there ought to be a law!!
I feel like John Belushi in Animal House when he smashes that guy's acoustic against the wall.
There's a point where someone is clueless and they ask question here, and people in the know provide good answers, and the person picks up on that and gets on with their acquisitions of recording experience, etc.
Then you have the ones who are clueless, and base all their counter-arguments on their cluelessness, and it's pretty obvious they are living in total denial, and are not really open to learning anything from the people here who are giving them good answers.
I mean...why do we even bother to try and educate them?
To me, they are just trolling...and even if they didn't come here to intentionally do that...the fact that they continue to live in denial and reject the info people here provide...well then, just go back to your world and work out whatever recording issues you have with whatever unrealistic approaches you think are better than the tried-n-true ones that have been in use for many years in studios world-wide.
Then again, let's not be too hasty to chase them away...'cuz there is a certain level of amusement watching someone repeatedly rejecting reality...so it's a good laugh for a couple of pages.