Now that I listen to it again, on a better system, I'll take back tubby comment, it is fine. I still would like some more high frequency sparkle. I can understand how they were mistaken for ribbons. 87's are usually a gritty, edgy mic (in a nice way, I would never say it is a bad mic), but sometimes not appropriate for this type of recording. Either the guitar was ridiculously mellow, or the top end was tapered in post.
I'll blame it on Bose earbuds. A heavy dull sound, but extremely comfortable, and don't fall out at the gym.
Well Jimmy, Daniel could be very right too and I find that a bit strange. A lot of the time we are trying to keep the ambience down and get more detail from the instrument/s itself. Are they doing this to make the spaces appear larger than what they originally were so to create the impression of a more important situation. Not sure.
Well I mentioned it is standard practice, not necessarily "good" practice. Much of the time I am forced to add more and more reverb at the request of the client, and I hear the same story from many other recordists. It is rarely the engineer's decision to wash out a nice and punchy recording.
With Naxos the engineer also does not have as much control of the session as he/she would like. In the old Decca/EMI days if the Tonmeister gave a command, it was obeyed without question, now we have unions, agents, large egos, and Zoom recorders which make everyone an "expert," reducing the poor recordist to the level of "sound guy."