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Slipperman hit it right on the head (as usual). I think it's a combination of a lot of things, starting with the player, guitar, guitarcable, amp, cable, speaker cabinet, microphone, cable, preamp, cable, patchbay, cable, EQ, cable, converter, recording medium, console, effects, engineer, the amount of time spent on getting the sound etc. you get the picture.
I could also imagine, when moving to a smaller budget, you also move to a room that is not as well equipped (monitors) or, more important, acoustically treated as the high $$$ room.
But what it all comes down to in the end are the ears of the people involved in the project. An experienced engineer can make up for a lot of shortcomings in most of the above mentioned stages.
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