Thanks for the comments! I was really pleased to hear how good the SF tones sounded on a "real" recording. It sounds good on my very bargain-basement setup at home too, but this was a whole different deal.
And I'll keep the Royer suggestion in mind for vocals too. I believe the vocal mic on this was a Bock 195. Sounded incredible to my ears on the studio monitors. Some of that got lost a little bit in the final mixes, although overall I'm quite pleased with how it came out.
The recording situation was a bit unusual. We got the chance to spend a day recording for free as the "test subjects" for a Recording Arts class at a new recording/film/computer game develop school here in Chicago called Flashpoint Academy.
http://www.flashpointacademy.com/The students (with a lot of input from the very experienced instructor) handle setting up the mics, pres, compression, verb, etc., running the board (a full on Pro Tools HD setup) during tracking, etc. Each student is then assigned a couple of tunes, and work on mixes of those over the next several weeks, getting feedback from us at a couple of stages. The final mixes were of somewhat varying quality, but generally were quite good. And we came away with 4 DVDs full of 24-bit/96k Pro Tools files from the sessions should we want to do more with them.
We're actually going back to do it again in a couple weeks. Last time, we rushed to get as many tunes in the can as we could (got 10, plus one sucky take of an 11th). This time, we're going to focus on a smaller number of tunes, spending more time dialing in tones, etc. Should be fun.
Guitars: Glendale Tele (Nocaster pickups), Fender Am. Series Fat Tele; Ibanez AS-73, Ibanez RS440
Amps: Traynor YCV40WR (w/Emin. Texas Heat), Egnater Tweaker (w/G12H30)
Barber Effects: Small Fry, Direct Drive SS, Half-Gainer.
Other Effects: Digitech EX-7, Line6 M9, Boss BD-2, BBE Freq Boost
http://www.14milestoempty.com/music/fla ... CallMe.mp3(Glendale, Small Fry, Traynor, main rhythm riff)