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do you have iso booths for the amps?

What do you have to work with as far as instruments and gear? How many people are in the band? What kind of space are you recording in? Analog or digital? FWIW I have found that recording metal can be especially challenging. It's also really fun............... sometimes.

Those Electrical Guitar Company guitars look amazing!

+1 on the B-15. They are very small and sound amazing!

I have a few guitars, but this one is my favorite. '69 Les Paul Custom:

I've never deleted a whole album, but I did something awful on the first "real" session I engineered to 2" tape. The band had just finished the master take of a song but we wanted to punch in the bass for one little measure. I accidentally left ALL the tracks armed and punched in an entire measure o...

This is grrreat! I'm gonna try a mix later.

I think moongels are really great. A tiny bit will muffle the head very noticeably. They also don't leave a bunch of gooey stuff on your heads.

Check out Golden Ears by Dave Moulton. http://www.moultonlabs.com/full/product01/

I too check all my mixes on my laptop speakers. They are totally nasty sounding, but people really do listen to music on them.

I once recorded a record where the band wanted the sound of hundreds of people chanting. All we had available was a group of 8 people. Fortunately we were working in a studio with a rather large and very lively live room. I recorded a take with the 8 people chanting and on the second take, I played ...

Check out the Little Labs PCP. It's my favorite so far.