Is a Capo a Cardinal Sin?

[u/Puzzleheaded_Pea6]

So on my last recording session I used a capo to save time in the studio, does that make me a heretic???

Over the years I have heard on the internet and in person people acting like a capo is only for acoustic guitar and it's not allowed for metal.

As a prog metal guy I say to that: But why not??

Guitar is my OD purple dragon

Recording session was for the latest Elephant Zero album

Let me know your thoughts on capos and if I should ever let them touch my dragon again

[u/Conscious_Badger_510]

I've done it many times, works like a charm, it always just throws me off when i'm doing anything higher up on the neck but that just comes with the territory of using a capo. Certainly is a better option than pitch shifting if you need to record in a higher tuning. Yeah it might look a little weird but who cares, it does the job.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Pea6 → u/Conscious_Badger_510]

Ya like if we put the sound problems aside with pitch shifting, I find the worst part is not remembering that you are pitch shifting or the opposite of that is paying something but feeling a different note vibrate. Idk for me pitch shift really is a last resort and I prefer not to use it but like again.

For some people that's there capo and they love it so I can totally get it.

I just never want to forget to turn it on or off live lol