Whats hip n' happenin'

So yesterday i was a studio engineer for Mat Quinn, overall the day went really well and we got the guitar that Mat wanted recorded in really quickly and it sounded really good. We had to strayed off the plan for a few things which i'll talk about now. We had a few problems with XLR cables but that's to be expected. The main problem we had was we were using a stereo track for one guitar as we had a mic on the neck and a mic at the sound hole. The problem we had was, using a stereo track caused the left side of the track which was the mic by the fret board to be really quiet. Instead we decided to use two mono tracks and just mix the sounds together later. We also had to use a compressor because the way Mat's track is played goes from quiet to loud and it was hard to get a constant level from it when there was such a change in volume. Another problem we encountered was the top left gain dial on the desk had a bad connection and would jump up volume so it was hard to level the audio with that but we ended up just using Digi 003 to turn up the gain on input one.