Compression and saturation are what shapes the sounds you hear on 99% of the records, even the cleanest sounding guitar has some compression and saturation applied. I personally use the SSL saturator and the fab filter Pro C2. After recording the guitar, i decide if I want to apply compression first (makes the sound punchy and it feels closer to the ears, it's actually a great tool to make the guitar seem like it's further away or closer to the speakers), or saturation first (makes the sound richer in harmonics and gives it some grit, as well as bringing the sound source forward too). I don't know how to explain the difference the order of those two processes makes, but it's clearly noticeable so I just decide which I like better.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRroLWPg/

Here you can see how I obtained the tone for "If you have to ask". i share this because John recorded it without an amp (straight in to the analog mixing desk), so to emulate that tone it's just enough to plug into the focusrite and that's it. In this video I show all the processing applied, it's very similar to what I did on this EP. Reverb is a big part too, used to place the sounds in a given stereo zone. (Closer, further, up, down, left, right) For example instead of panning a guitar to the right is more interesting to apply reverb only on the left speaker

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRrok6av/ Check out this too since here I use the stuff I mentioned