I'm not at work today, so I can't listen and give any feedback on your recordings directly, but I can tell you that new strings are a disaster for recording guitars. They're way too bright, but in a really nasty, shiny, rattly sort of way. They vibrate oddly against the fret and they clutter the sound with a lot of metallic 'mess'. You need to find the window after they lose all that stuff and before the intonation gets affected by age and corrosion.

The guitars themselves are also a huge factor. In my experience about 7/10 acoustic guitars actively fight against you when trying to record them. In other words they exhibit traits in the sound which you find become undesirably obvious as you go in search of the traits that you do want to hear. The design of the instrument, type of wood and age are all factors. Generally speaking you do not want a resonant, vibrant guitar with lots of projection and extended highs and lows, but rather a dry, middly, tight sound without too much high frequency.

I'll have a listen when I can and see if there's anything to suggest.

J

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