Multitrack recording on a PC?

[dudernut]

Ahh..very nice. That helps put it into perspective. I could definitely make use of having different headphone mixes. I may try to mess around with that when I get home this evening. Currently, I run my headphone amp straight out of the headphone jack on the front of the interface. It works fine and well, but occasionally the performer wants to customize the mix to help them hear the important stuff. In these cases, I have to tweak the actual mix accordingly and bump things back into place later. Good stuff, thanks!

 

[Steenamaroo]

Ahh..very nice. That helps put it into perspective. I could definitely make use of having different headphone mixes. I may try to mess around with that when I get home this evening. Currently, I run my headphone amp straight out of the headphone jack on the front of the interface. It works fine and well, but occasionally the performer wants to customize the mix to help them hear the important stuff. In these cases, I have to tweak the actual mix accordingly and bump things back into place later. Good stuff, thanks!

That's a perfect example of when you'd want a separate headphone mix.
It's different per daw, but in protools you can put sends on each channel (to 3+4, for example), then adjust the levels of those sends as per the performer's request.
That keeps your main mix the way you want it.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

...occasionally the performer wants to customize the mix to help them hear the important stuff. In these cases, I have to tweak the actual mix accordingly and bump things back into place later.

Here's a trick I came up with: Create a submix bus and assign things the performer needs more of to it. After tracking you can delete the bus and you're back to the mix you started with. You could even mute the main output of the channels and do your monitor mix entirely on sends, then delete the bus and unmute the channels when done tracking.