Demo recording setup question

[Exitilus]

Okay, this is my first post, so, hey everyone, nice community you have here!

I'm primarily a musician, and am looking to, over the next year or so, piece together a reasonable setup for demo type recording and a little bit of hobbyist fooling around ..

I have a bit of experience mixing a tracked song, EQing it, and piecing the parts together to get a nice flow, and whatnot, but other than that, I'm coming into this recording thing fresh. (I'd been recording through an embarassing soundcard until now - audigy 2 plat)

Because I'm on a limited budget, aswell as advice on *what* to get, I'm also looking for advice on what sort of order to get things in for parts to be optimally useful. IE - not wanting to have my system unbalanced completely to either front or back end.

ProTools as a medium interests me, and the 002 setup looks like a bargain for what all it does - that looks to be the sort of thing I'm looking at running the show from - but again, I suppose even that might be overkill for me. I don't intend on building my system to insane proportions, but I don't want to be stuck with completely garbage pawn-shop fodder at the end of the day.

So, I'm going to need two guitar amp mics, a bass amp mic, a set of drum mics, and probably two vocal mics. What are my best bets?

To be honest, I don't know anything - I'm ... dying here .. trying to not come off as the amateur I am - but anyhow. Even if I haven't given enough information to get the answers I think I want .. any advice, comments, or requests for more information? sigh

-Ex

edit: also, I'm strongly considering building some sort of sound-proof enclosures with contained mics - something similar to those new randall ones

edit2: oh yeah, music style might be important - indie rock / noise / metal. So, really, a dynamic setup would be best I suppose - something that can do both ugly and relaxed

[darrin_h2000]

Get alot of SM57s and a 58.

[DJL]

Originally posted by Exitilus
So, I'm going to need two guitar amp mics, a bass amp mic, a set of drum mics, and probably two vocal mics. What are my best bets?

Get a Sennheiser MD421, a Shure SM57, and a pair of SDC mics (like two Oktava MC-012's) to start with.