what do you automate?

[dirty_bass]

The automation of EQ is not a "rule" it`s just common production knowledge that you are opening yourself up for a world of difficulty and trouble if you use it for mix purposes.
It can be done creatively, I use mid sweeping a fair bit when constructing atmospherics.

See above, there`s nothing to say you can`t do anything "in the mix"

Doesn`t mean it won`t sound shite though.

75% of my music making time is spent trying shit out just for the sake of it, so don`t paint me into a hypochritical corner buddy.

I`m just talking from experience that`s all.

As for guitars, it`s been tried and tried and tried.
So it`s nothing new.
It`s very old in fact, trying to meld heavy guitar and techno.
It rarely rarely works, but then, it `s mainly to do with how techno works spacially.

Guitars work well with drum and bass though. But the general spacial construction of drum and bass is different. It`s percussively fairly sparse to begin with in general.