To give everyone their own mix.... is expensive. And for a band that is recording in their rehearsal space..... prohibitively so.
The church I attend has a very sweet, but very high dollar monitoring system. Its an Aviom monitoring system. Networked controllers on a cat5 loop.....each person can mix exactly what they want to hear...... not easily moved around, as in portable from site to site easily.
Several decades back, a band asked me to record a demo for them to send to clubs with their promo package. I went to their reheasal house with my Teac 4 track reel to reel. I took the output off their mixerboard and used headphones so I could hear the mix, since I was in the other room. Basically all I did was what their sound man probably did at the clubs.... but I was mixing for tape.... not a room.
The demo actually turned out pretty good. I copied it to cassette for them and they used it to get more work.
I think they were expecting me to do mutlitrack stuff, but under the circumstances, that was not feasible. I simply told them to play their songs..start to finish and let me record it. A few times through on each song and we had some workable stuff. Nothing you would want to press to a CD, but it was perfect for what they needed at the time.
If you are recording a record for them.... then that would be a different story. However....As I read the OP, that does not appear to be the case. Knowing you do multitrack stuff at home, they might expect you to come in with a full rig and spend hours punching in fixes..... my guess is this is not a highly paid job, so unless you really just want to spend hours and days on this for free or cheap.... tell them upfront to rehearse and have their songs nailed before you go in to record..... then mic them up .....YOU put on the cans.... and after a sound check and notes on who gets the guitar solo and where.... tell them to go for it. Just don't forget to hit record.
If you remember back in the 50's..... the early studios..... that's how they did it. Everybody in one room, mics on the gear, guy in the other room is the only one hearing what is going to tape.
post edited by Guitarhacker - 2010/07/18 08:45:01