How do you record a whole band in seperate rooms?

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My friend was going to record my brother's band. He said this indepent record label was going to hire him to do some recordings, but they just didn't have any bands yet. All I was supposed to do was bring my mics. I found out my friend knew nothing. He later told me he never recorded more than on track at a time, this was his first time using 8 tracks. Anyway, we set up the bass and guitar in one room and drummer in another. We ran all the mic cables and bass line out into the Aardvark Q10. The problem was the bass was coming out of the speakers really low and the guitarist had a hard time hearing him. Also, the drummer couldn't hear anybody else. How do you fix this, give everyone headphones and run the sound out? Does the Aardvark let you mix all the drum mics, guitar and bass to one output for the headphones? My friend said he never used the outs, so he doesn't know.
 
Use the outs of the Aardvark to go to the ins of a mixing board. Use that for a headphone mixer.
 
If you need multiple headsets then you need a headphone amp. I've been using the Behringer HA4700 and it does the job. You need to create a live monitor mix either in the recording software or preferably on a real mixer. Then you send that to the headphone amp.
 
What about the monitor mix on the Aardvark Q10? I haven't been using a real mixer with the Aardvark.
 
I have never attempted to create a monitor mix for a band off of a soundcard so I can't say for sure.

The issues would probably be either you have to use a post software mix in which case there would some slight latency between when the sound actually occurrs and when the performer hears it in the headphones. That can mess with your head but sometimes it is unnoticeable.

Soundcards also offer 0 latency monitoring but I don't know if you have the ability to actually mix the relative levels of the inputs or if it just sends everything to the monitor outs at unity (which is what I suspect). That would work but the levels may not be very suitable for everyone in the band. It would also mean you can't use any monitor effects or compression.

Personally I think anyone who tries to record full bands at once without a mixer is a sadist.
 
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