Getting ready to record

I've already got about half of the songs copyrighted -- I will do the others right before we start.

My friend has said that he will charge me $250 to record, mix, and master the songs. i think I have enough musicians to play on it and all they ask is credit on the cover -- and i will probably take a photo of all of them as well.

What i'm envisioning is to give a rough recording of the songs to the musicians ahead of time so they can figure out an arrangmement. It's pretty simple...vocal, rhythm guitar, bass, lead guitar, maybe steel, or lap steel and possibly a keyboard.

I'm only looking at 6 songs...which i'm told is an EP, not an LP -- and is commonplace in this age of CDs and digital music that isn't dependent on the 5 songs per side format.

the big CD question is replication or duplication.