Radost "I dont care how expansive hand selected a tube amplification is solid state is million years ahead"
There are a lot of electric guitarists who would disagree with you....
If we are talking about electronic instruments and adding flavor to the guitar and want to add distortion to you guitar be my guest.
But to capture and reproduce everything you are now introducing distortion not only to guitar amp but the entire material.
If it’s Metallica or other electric bands be my guest and do whatever.
Even though the overhead drum microphones would sound better if not reproduced through a tube.
I am a guitar player. In fact my master degree is in classical guitar.
I spent my entire life ear training ear training. The first time i heard a CD i was shocked how close it sounds to the real thing. I started hearing things “on recordings I loved and listened to thousand times” I never heard before. I hear a vibraphone player singing the melody bleeding in the vibe overhead mic. I hear Upright bass and acoustic guitar players tapping their foot.
And again you can have close to that on a tape recording with a nice noise reduction. But digital beats it every time.
Electric instruments… yea who cares? they are already analog “compromised” and it is part of their charm.
But acoustic and space… No contest digital.