Producing a professional band recording with one mic...

This may not be new to you but this is how I (on a limited space & money budget) record & produce finished tracks for bands with just one mic. First I setup the whole band in a room and put headphones on the drummer. Then, I just stick a mic anywhere close to the band in the room and setup a mono audio record track in SONAR with the mic as it's input. Next, I setup a track in SONAR with a kick playing quarter notes, a snare every other quarter note & a highhat playing eigth notes. I then turn up the volume loud in the drummers headphones and when he is ready he just starts playing the drumtrack for the song live for the rest of the members to play along with (This "click track" keeps the whole song in good 4/4 time and allows you to easily add some quantized midi tracks later). This produces a mono track of the entire song and all the players in SONAR. Then I re-record each part individually with that one mic while each player alone listens to the mono recording we just made and rerecords his part on a new audio track. When your done you have separate audio track for each instrument in time with each other and you can produce away in SONAR to your hearts content. You can achieve totally professional results if you take your time! - Shawn Lee Farrell 
 
Here is a track produced this way for a bunch of eleventh grade highschool students who had only been a band for one month, and original track called - "A Night to Remember"
 
http://www.trustmedia.tv/A_Night_to_Remember.mp3
 
here are some shots from the session:
 

 

 

 
Me in my studio in the back of a coffee shop on 2nd street in Hastings, MN!
 

 
I HOPE THIS WAS HELPFULL TO SOME OF YOU! - SHAWN

Sidroe
 Sadly, Wayne was shot and killed by a club owner in Nashville last year. I will always have fond memories of that project that seemed so chaotic at the time.

From Wiki...
In the early hours of November 23, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, Mills was shot in the head by a bar owner allegedly over an argument involving Mills lighting up a cigarette in a no-smoking area.[6] He was rushed to a hospital but later died.
 
WTF?!

Here are this kids listening for the first time! The local newspaper did a story about the project! -Shawn
 

 

Is that safety grating mounted over the face of your monitors?
 
:-)