Why do you sometimes hear the finger slides from guitar players on some recordings, but not others?

Question

Is this due to the skill of the musician? A musical choice? The producer or recording engineer?

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Answer 1

It’s more prevalent on the lower strings because they are [wound wire](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/ee43f496-fa80-4070-8c8f-40a674058dff_1.499389ee45584d4abc9d09d82439e5e1.jpeg) and have ridges instead of being perfectly smooth like the upper strings.

Skill does come into it too, but only to a point. Like if the strings are dirty and your fingertips are sweaty your skill level will take second place to those other factors.

Then about the engineering side of it, there’s several ways to reduce or remove the sound. And there’s several reasons why an artist or engineer might want to keep the sound, or remove it.

So it’s hard to answer really, it could be lots of things but like the other post said if it’s there on the recording it’s because it was decided to keep it there.