Live Recording Advice

[crowbgood1]

Electronic drums MIDI and EZ Drummer can work well live.

DI bass and mic up guitar amps. Leaves lots of scope for editing and over dubbing.
No click takes the sterility out.

[aliasceiza]

I know of a little local studio that does live band recordings at $200 a song, so on your budget, that's 6 songs, they're called soundtree, have a youtube channel called soundtree1, they get mixed results, most of the vids on their channel are free promotional Sunday sessions.

they use a booth for the drummer, set everyone up with headphones...some like it, some don't.

My point being, there must be somewhere like that in Auckland that would do a similar sort of thing.

Check out a band called Antwars, or Antwars Underground, sometimes they use the longer name, but they'd probably be your best comparison, and their tunes were all done at soundtree!

[aliasceiza]

Oh, if you are checking out Antwars, ignore the soundtree free Sunday session clip, it sounds like arse!

[Eruera]

1200 would buy you 40 hours studio time in palmy, unless the rates have gone up