My old recording method was the worst -

Drums recorded by Camera Microphone in one take. Guitars and Bass recorded by Singstar Mic (yes, I owned Singstar) held up to amp.

Here's how it turned out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBHxq1Fqjo

Now we have a higher quality Zoom H4N, and have dumped the camera recording altogether and the Singstar Mic. Although I still use it as a Computer Mic, for recording videos where I need to speak.

My old recording method was the worst -

Drums recorded by Camera Microphone in one take. Guitars and Bass recorded by Singstar Mic (yes, I owned Singstar) held up to amp.

Here's how it turned out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBHxq1Fqjo

Are you serious? I expected some super-lowfi super-underground black metal sound and this sounds pretty decent, like some 80s thrash studio recording.

I didn't know it's possible to decently record drums with one microphone, let alone microphone in camera.

I generally get pretty crap recordings....

I use my toshiba satellite laptop (don't know what model), a pod x3 (which doesn't work properly but was a present so i felt too bad saying it was duff) dfh ezdrummer and reaper/computer muzys.... I have a cheap stagg microphone

yeah, nice

i do however have a tascam portastudio (II I believe) that I've had since I was 13/14. Used it to demo guitar tracks when i was in a band....... I've been thinking recently about going oldschool in my recording and doing it all on tape... well send a click track from laptop to the tape, along with some drums and any vst based japerey I fancy.

was much more intuitive and I think it would be easier for me to set up what is actually coming out of my pod's outputs with what gets recorded

I have a Vox Tonelab LE, going into an Mbox2 mini/Pro Tools LE 7.3.1 setup, and a pair of M-Audio Bx5a monitors.

I recently bought EZDrummer along with DFH for drum sampling.

I still have to get a good distorted tone out of the Vox, I can't seem to get rid of that fizz in the high freqs, and it's quite horrible on recording!

Other than that, it's a good setup for me, nothing fancy, and it gets the job done!

I have a Vox Tonelab LE, going into an Mbox2 mini/Pro Tools LE 7.3.1 setup, and a pair of M-Audio Bx5a monitors.

I recently bought EZDrummer along with DFH for drum sampling.

I still have to get a good distorted tone out of the Vox, I can't seem to get rid of that fizz in the high freqs, and it's quite horrible on recording!

Other than that, it's a good setup for me, nothing fancy, and it gets the job done!

If you are using Pro Tools, solo one of your guitars and slap on an EQ. Create a low pass filter with the EQ with a pretty hard cut-off (like 12 db +) and start at 20 kHz and gradually roll it back through the frequency spectrum until you get rid of the fizz.

Now, when the fizz is gone take note of what frequency it is that it cut out at and remove the low pass filter. Chances are that unless the fizz was a very high frequency, the low pass filter is going to make your guitars sound dull or like utter crap so that's why we use it just to determine the range of the offending frequency.

Now, you want to create a scoop in the EQ using a parametric equalizer (which is the standard one in PT). Dial it in at the frequency that the fizz started to sound annoying at. You want to really crank up the Q of the EQ so that it covers a very narrow frequency range and then cut the EQ a drastic amount. Then you basically sweep the frequency back and forth until you find the EXACT spot where the fizz is annoying. You may have to widen the Q a bit to get all of the fizz and chances are you will want to make the EQ cut a little less drastic so as to remove the fizz but not make it sound like you removed much else.

You have to play with it to get it to where you want and then copy/paste those settings to your other rhythm tracks. It's more of a band-aid than a true solution but it can work wonders for helping get unruly tone under control. Anyway, you may know all this already but I figured I'd write up something quick for anyone that is curious.

Cool man thanks for your input, I'll definitely give this a try (and no, I was not aware of anything you said, as I'm faily new to recording )