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This is a great alternative to putting the amp in an enclosure: If you're just tracking guitars have the guitar player stay in the control room with you with his guitar and his head. Put the head up on something so you can easily adjust the dials to get the tone you want, and then put the cabinet out in the live room (or just out of the studio somewhere if it's only 1 room) and then run a long speaker cable from the head to the cab. Because the signal coming from the head is so loud it has more power and won't be affected by the impedance of running down the long cable as much.
This allows you to have a more natural dialog with the guitar player because you don't have to communicate via a talk-back which can really help the feel of the session. If you only have a one room studio it also lets you have someone out by the cab to move mics around while you listen to the monitors. If the amp is in the room with you it's so loud you have to record and then listen to the tone you have on playback which takes twice as long to make adjustments.
If you're trying to keep the guitar from bleeding into another source, say the drums, you can use this same approach. Have the drummer and guitar player in the room together like they would play live, move the guitar cabinet out and run the long speaker cable to the cabinet somewhere out of the studio, and then send them the guitar over headphones.
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