Drum Recording - Drummer can't hear tracks

Hi guys. I was wondering if I could hear your solutions to this issue. when i record drums with my drummer, he plays with headphones plugged into the headphone jack, but the drums are loud and drown out the metronome. The only solution i've found is to create a simple drum track, and then amplify it with the overdrive effect but that just produces a crappy sounding track that's hard to play with. How do you guys address this issue?

you've basically got it, a click track is what you use, though a compressor might be a better effect to try (and/or better cans to cancel out the noise)

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