It also allows you to share rig setup(I will add to the page), so you could share your pedal board setup. Everything that goes into creating your sound with a guitar or bass you can share. As room consideration I'm thinking this mostly for recording applications and think most people don't record too loud. But that's an interesting thought.
Even without recording too loud, room can have a HUGE impact on recording. As can mic, pre-amp, mic placement, speaker cabinet, pickup selection, pick choice, string choice, playing style.
I'd try to minimize or at least make transparent those choices. Either:
* Suggest an ideal circumstance (SM57 close mic'd as a reference or something), and note how this recording differs from the ideal
* Make people list all of the components that went into the recording
It's still going to be hard, because individual playing style can have a really big effect on sound (ie, Jaco is always going to sound like Jaco, even if you give him someone else's bass).
That being said, I think it's really useful to hear lots of examples. Just be careful about misleading people with regards to why things sound the way they do.
You are 100% about all those things. The shape of the walls in the room, the room ambience - recording in a cave will sound different from recording in your bedroom. Also the type of guitar the body material, neck material.
I will consider these things in my design. I will write about what I was thinking on my blog, but as previously noted I didn't know if people would care for me to even bother.
