The fundamental procedure for a decent recording in a recording studio involves multitracking.
You first lay down the drums with either a guide guitar or bass, with or without a click track/metronome
After which you lay all bass and electric guitars.
Any other instruments your band may have.
Then the vocals.
So you build up your song along the way.In layers. People always think this is a tedious process but it allows a lot of flexibilty in terms of finding right tones for guitars, bass for example.
After the recording process, there is the mixdown process, where we take all the raw tracks and EQ, compress, add effects and balance everything out so the song sounds good. A tricky process that can make or break the song in my opinion.
Depending on the studio, after that the track basically requires some form of mastering just to meet the standards in terms of loudness in comparison to your more commercial releases.
For a band to hit the studio, there are couple of factors the band should think about of which include:
What kind of recording quality you are looking at?
What is your budget?
How many songs you have?
The genre of music?
How tight are you as a band?
Just take note that those factors are inter dependent...meaning how tight you are a band may actually affect your budget because it determines the amount of time you have in the studio all of which affects your song quality.
Hope that helps.
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