Aside from tracking drums, playing or recording electric guitars has always been a game of compromises for the apartment musician and recording engineer. You need to juggle playing and recording in rooms that just don’t sound right, and ultimately you can never really crank your amp to reach that “sweet” spot without drawing the ire of your neighbors.
So, what do we apartment-dwelling guitarists and engineers do? We begin to compromise. The first thing I did was flip my Dual Rectifier half stack to fund a lower-watt combo