Jimi Hendrix is a wuss

Guitars. Terrible instruments. Well, to record in my opinion. As we recorded our guitar parts in multiple sessions, we got 2 different sounds. How the hell did this happen? Well. If you mess with the EQ on your amp, you mess with the recorded sounds. But that's an all other thing.

How to record such a thing? Well, we as a rock band have a lot of distorted parts. It seems that when you record a distorted sound too loud, you get a signal with a lot of flat tops. So first of all you turn down the gain/volume knob. It has to be relatively soft as compared to the sound that you are used to in the space used for band practice. Then we placed our condenser mic in the same way we placed the mic for the recording of the bass. Slightly to the side of the cone, but pointing directly towards it.
N.B. Because of our budget trouble we aren't in the possession a great tube amps, so therefor we had to work with transistor amps. It worked, but the sound gets a lot better if you use a tube amp, a lot warmer.

We only recorded the guitar in two ways, clean and distorted. Any other effects, such as tremolo, chorus and flanger, are put over the tracks during the mixing, so that you can get the perfect sound that you are looking for. Later a bit more about that.

The problem while recording this "soft" is that you easily can get some room noise to go along with it. So what you need at first is a closed pair of headphones and simply to be very, very quiet (like you're hunting wabbits). As we were going for the strumming noise as well, we needed to remain in the same space as where the amp was, other wise you can easily solve this problem by putting the amp in another room, or yourselves for that matter.

Another problem we encountered is because of the fact we've got two guitar players. Our other guitar player started complaining about the fact that he couldn't hear himself no matter how loud his signal was. This is very easily solved by muting his signal so he understands that he's out of his mind.

Don't mind the sound you get scraping over the strings to get another chord. It isn't annoying and even the best guitar players have that trouble. Even Jimi.