umm...most of the recording was done in my basement, the only exception was I recorded piano parts were done on a piano on campus. Every instrument was recorded one at a time, drums, then bass, then guitar, keys, etc... drums was typically, sm81 overheads, sm57 snare, d112 kick, md421 lo tom, sm58 hi tom, 414 toom mic... bass was recorded di, but reamped it to a vibrochamp and miced with a md421. guitars, i used a strat or sg, through a combination of boss cs-3, bd-2, rat, big muff, or memory man, into a vox pathfinder or vibrochamp, usually mic the amps with a sm57 close front, md421 close back, 414 far mic and blended.... keyboard/synth was a combination of vst plugins (b3, edirol orchestra), a cheap yamaha psr keyboard, or a korg electribe analog synth, reamped through the vibrochamp or vox. vocals were recorded with md421 or 414.... i predominantly used the dan alexander neve clone mic pre for the recording, but went to the joe meek vc3q or the motu mic pres if i wanted to use more than 2 mics... everything was done @ 48khz/24bit onto cubase. although the basic structure for songs was set prior to recording, a lot of parts were written as they were recorded, which took a while to try different versions and different sounds etc....
for mixing, we dumped the cubase session to protools and took it to a studio where the tracks were run through a trident 80b console. i don't recall which outboard pres and compressors were used, the typical more pro stuff (distressors, dbx 160, manly) etc.... but a lot of use was made of this echoplex tape delay on the tracks, particularly vocals, piano, and guitar.... we mixed back down to protools @ 48khz/24bit