muttley600
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That's pretty much along the lines of what I was thinking, especially with crunchy or higher gain tones. Pickups, amps, and speakers make the most significant differences IMO. Take Angus and Malcolm Young. They play drastically different guitars, but both use humbuckers through the same loud as fuck amps, and their basic tones are pretty damn similar. I use different guitars all the time on my own recordings. A Strat, SG, Les Paul, and my new Hallmark Mosrite clone, and I most often can't remember what I used for what. It all pretty much sounds like the same crap. Lol.
Just think about what you do with the chain when recording an electric and what the objectives are when recording an acoustic. Two diffent approaches. With an electric you want to tweak it with an acoustic you want to capture it. Neither is wrong. One thing is certain you struggle to get a good tone from any guitar that doesn't have the basics down unplugged.