Individual Or All-at-once Recording?, record rhythm tracks together or separat Options

[nachojoker]

a big thing in my life is choosing weather to record a band's rhythm tracks together....or individually. i record rhythm tracks together, and first....always. but a lot of people think its better to record drums first, then everything individually on top of that. i don't agree, because you get a much better recording in unison as far as timing and tighness goes. you feed off eachother, and stay with eachother when you record together, and just overdub solos, vocals, etc. what are your thoughts? don't like 99% of all studios record rhythm tracks together?

[Drifta]

I know this is a late response but I wanted to reply to this.

Couldn't you record them live but have everything on different tracks? Multitrack recording . Mic the drums to your tastes, the instruments and vocals so that when the band is playing, you're getting the feel of the performance as well as the track separation for effects etc at mixdown. best of both worlds.

i believe this is how it's usually done in studios. cept, they put the drums in a separate rooms sometimes and vocals to minimize bleeding of instruments into the mics of other instruments. or, you could close mic everything with mono directional mics and get a similar effect.

i agree that recording performance is about somehow getting the "feeling" of the permance on "tape". i just think that doing so doesn't mean you have sacrifice track separation.

just my $.02,
cheers,
Drifta