This is the moment. We've got lightning and we've got our bottle, we just need to capture it! There's always something exhilirating about recording sessions, a glimpse of limitless possibility and creativity. We don't have our own studio premises but we do have all the required recording gear. This gives us the flexibility to record wherever we can set up and, since we're a two-peice, we can actually fit in a lot of smaller spaces. We've recorded in living rooms, bedrooms and rehearsal studios.
The conventional method is to lay down a drum track with a rough rhythm guitar part all to a click. Then you overdub everything else one by one. This allows you to give each part full attention and re-record bits until you're happy with them. You do lose sponteneity that way though, so a lot of the time we'll at least record the guitar and the drums together. In those cases, we often forgo the click track entirely and rely entirely on feel. That basis is what gives a lot of our tracks their live energy - music is ultimately about people playing together after all.
These days, we've taken this to its logical conclusion and record everything live: drums, guitar, and vocals. This is more demanding since you've got to give the best take of all three parts simultaneously but it's all the more satisfying in the end. There's something about just getting all that air moving at once which somehow translates into the microphones. Rock music is meant to be exciting!
We treat the entire band as a single ensemble by placing the guitar amps and vocal monitors alongside the drums. Microphone-wise, we try not to poke every conceivable mic at every conceivable surface but rather use four for the drums, one for each guitar amp, one for the vocals, plus one or two "in the room" to capture the combined sound. A lot of people fret about the sounds from different instruments bleeding into the other mics but if you're sensible about balancing the playing volumes it actually helps gel the final mix together. If you stand in front of this band "ensemble", you should be hearing a pretty good mix anyway. Counterintuitively, bringing the amps and drums close together actually seems to make the spill sound better since you're getting the sound more directly rather than after having bounced around the room.
And so, in short, get everyone together in the room, smash out your tunes, and sod the spill!