Hi Rushton, one thing we tried really hard at was to play everything at the same time. Getting the mics set properly was a challenge, as the drum mics wanted to pick up everything else. We had to keep different channels though, to create the right balance of instruments after the fact.
The drums were recorded with a pair of Neumann U67s. The natural presentation they had made it a lot easier to integrate the drums into the final mix.
Thus everything was recorded onto an Otari 1" 8-channel machine in real-time. The other members of the band were really happy to work with analog, so I did not have to push all that hard to keep the standards up. The only thing we ran into is that the drummer was **really** picky about his drum sound, and the others didn't want to hear him complaining about it after the project was done, so the only tampering with the signal was on his tracks. I picked up a top-of-the-line set of Grados so that the studio monitors would not mess with his ears.
The final mix was on to a Studer, running at 15 i.p.s. You surmised the LP mastering correctly.
