Best Guess at how this guitar was recorded, mixed, mastered?

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Hi,

I am new here, first post. I have an original track and I am trying to figure out how to get something close to that sound.

1) Types of mics? Dynamic, condenser? The guitar sounds a bit boxy to me maybe a bit wood like?

2) Position of mics relative to guitar?

3) How much is in the mixing and mastering, panning, reverb etc.?

Here is the original track:
View attachment original.mp3


Here is mine:
View attachment myversion.mp3

I recorded a few tracks and panned hard. I used a single Rode nt-1a condenser around the 12th fret, and one near the neck 5-6 inches away. Is it in the mix or do I need to be looking at recording the guitar differently with different mics? Any help or pointers greatly appreciated.
 
I actually like the body of your guitar tone better. I hear a bit of enhancement on the upper frequencies of the Goo Goo version, and a dip in frequencies around 200Hz.
 
Thank you! I figured someone might like mine better, but I was more or less curious as to how the original was made to sound like that. I guess the original does shows it's age...
 
There are people in this world that, blindfolded, can feel a rug and tell you where it comes from or can taste a mouthful of wine and tell you exactly where it was bottled and where the grapes were grown.






















































Unfortunately, I am not one of those people.
 
I can just about tell you once in fifty times if there's some compression on a snare drum !
sculpin said:
How much is in the mixing and mastering, panning, reverb etc.?
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I suspect that there's more to final sounds in mixing and mastering than we often realize. I've long been and remain firmly convinced, that you can do almost anything with any recorded sound in the studio, be that the tracking one, the mixing one or the mastering one.
I read somewhere how Jim McGuinn of the Byrds got his revolutionary jangly electric 12 string guitar sound. It wasn't even him ! It was some engineer, apparently, overly compressing the guitar track on "Mr Tambourine man" and farting about with it. McGuinn just wanted George Harrison's 12 string Rickenbacker sound.....
 
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