Coolness. My setup isn't nearly that professional, lol. Good to hear you are jammin' on Ibanez, though. RGs have some killer crunch built into them. I shred on a '91 Ibanez Silver Cadet with a custom bridge prop...puts my strings just barely 1mm above the fretboard for good straight work.
Left/right is a perfectly fine setup, especially if you are looking for crisp sound on it. I know what you mean about that "wall of sound" problem, and it's really tough to not create that when you are recording your own stuff. I'm personally just used to doubling up on the rhythms and then leaving the lead on its own track to get some extra thickness in there. The track on our MySpace page isn't like that, though...we've got two separate tracks running on that (one rhythm and one lead), but Ben (my cousin) runs dual harmonies on the riffs. We just put both tracks on both channels because the setup we were using to record only let us hear through one channel, so it's the only way we could hear what we were putting together. lol
The fact that all the stuff you did there was improv is definitely a bonus.
As far as hardware/software we used on our track, it's all in the blog on the page. Ben (my cousin, the guitars on the track) is building one of his rooms in his house into a mini-studio, and we should be egg-crating that bitch in about 2 months. Got a 24-channel mixer in there, plus his Bugera half-stack and two synth boards. All that plus the bajillion pieces of REAL gear we've got (not like the cheap $8.00 PC mic we used to mic the shit on "Settlement")...and we should be doing pretty good eventually.
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