We recorded the drums first, but not in isolation – bass was DI’d, guide guitars were played in through a Line6 Pod and guide vocals were also tracked at the same time. The audio interface that we used with Logic was a Presonus Firestudio and its one of many audio interfaces that gives you realtime DSP mix for headphone monitoring, so we were able to give everyone a good mix while getting a good drum recording. We used a click to help with tempo, but having the whole band playing together kept the feel nice and live.
Once we felt we had the best drum takes, we recorded the guitars. These were double mic’d with a condenser and a dynamic mic for blending later. The bass was DI’d and then run through IK Multimedia’s Ampeg SVX bass amp plug-in. For most of the tracks the guide DI from the bass was fine to use and didn’t need re-recording. For vocals we used the AKG C414. When it came time for the backing vocals we used a spaced pair of condensers mics with 2 singers on each, spaced depending on harmonies.