Why is it unacceptable to DI guitar, but acceptable to DI bass

Because bass has lower, meatier notes that work with DI-ing well, whereas guitar notes tend to sound too thin through DI?

Its possible to make DI guitar work. It just takes effort.

Usually you go clean bass, without distortion or a tube amp sound needed. With electric guitar, most of it's tone comes from the amp, especially when it comes to dynamic response and distortion. Many people use virtual amps on their DAW and then they just DI the guitar. Many would argue that an amp sounds far better than a virtual amp, though

>>74987256
>unacceptable

Loads of bands use DI for guitar. Two off the top of my head are The Radio Dept. and TOPS, whose musicianship and songwriting could not amount to any "tone" that typical rockists cream over.

>>74989704
So if I get a hollow/semihollow guitar, which I hear sound pretty decent even when unplugged, I can DI it just as easily as electric bass?

>>74989966
If you're going for a completely clean sound, DI will work great. If you want distortion or semi-distortion, just know that you are compromising an "authentic" guitar tone.

Just try things out, the more you do it, the more you figure out what works and what sounds good and you'll find techniques to make whatever equipment you have sound as good as possible