I decided to record the guitar. Overall, our philosophy was to keep the record sounding as natural' as possible by avoiding the easy trap of oversoing it with outboard effects. The other nice thing about not killing a recording with effects is that the music is listenable at every volume level, without any loss of detail.
Effects have a tendency to date' a recording.
Of course, the flipside is that twenty years down the road, the old technology that sounded so crummy becomes all the rage again. I prefer albums that are timesless, ones that sound as if they could have been recorded last week, no matter how old they are. Has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and composed music for numerous television, radio and theatrical scores.