La Bête Blooms Drums and Bass Recording Approach

My practices carried out whilst recording La Bête Blooms will be informed by the practices of both Steve Albini, and Butch Vig.

Both engineers prefer to take a live approach to recording, However I feel that it would be quite difficult to minimise bleed/spill from individual microphones given the size of the college studio. 

In the aforementioned article regarding Steve Albini, he states; 

I prefer to record as much of the band in one live take as possible. If you do it any other way, the band is forced into an unnatural situation from the very beginning of the process. They play together in the rehearsal room and on stage, so it seems normal to me that they also play together when they come into the studio. With 90 percent of the records I do, the singing is recorded after the band, unless the singing is what leads the band (Tingen, 2005) 

Taking this into consideration, I have decided to take a live approach when recording bass and drums, recording both together to a click track with the drummer in the live room, and the bass player in the control room running through a Sansamp straight into the desk as a ghost track. The remaining elements such as the bass, guitar and vocals will be overdubbed using a multi-track approach to achieve more flexibility with the overall sound.