Recording a full band in home studio

I've been recording my song ideas for a few years now with decent results which has started opening up doors. I have a couple opportunities coming up to record other people. I'm hoping to do this more. One of these opportunities involves recording a full band - 2 guitars, bass, drums, vox.
When I record myself I just grab a drum loop to play along with while I record. I do the singer/songwriter thing so I play all the instruments and it works for me. Later, If necessary I either find better loops or program the drums or lately I made my first attempt and recorded a live kit. I really enjoyed it but it really threw the drummer to play to a loop.
So now I have this band wanting to come in and I'm a little in over my head as far as approaching this as professionally as I can in a home environment. They're a young band and I'm new to recording full bands so I want this to be as positive an experience as possible for us all.
I want to give the drummer something to keep time to so we can have a locked tempo. Is using a drum loop total cheese? I know people talk about click tracks but I've heard that's really hard for a drummer to get used to if he hasn't recorded before. The drummer is young but solid, I've heard him play.
I'm also wondering about the best way to record them. I can record up to 8 channels at once. I was planning to record the whole band "live" first just to create a guide track that the drummer can follow along to later. (Keeping tempo will be my concern if I do that.) Because I don't have proper baffles/gobos, etc. to keep this all separated (plus I'd run out of channels) I then thought I'd go back and record each instrument individually so I can get good levels, etc. Does this make sense? Thoughts?

Hi,
There are two rough directions you can take, in order to record them :
1.- Record them all together, playing live.
2.- Record a rough guide, and then go back and track each individual separately.
The click can be a good thing, or it can be a bad thing. I recommend you try to use it, instead of a loop, since the loop might head the band down the wrong musical path... if they can play to the click, great, if not, then do not use it. This will not make or break a great recording.
There are strengths and weaknesses with each situation, so it really boils down to one thing:
What is the music style to be recorded like?
This, above all else, will determine the proper way to go about recording these guys.
You should make note as to what songs will be recorded, and what style it is, what band is close sound wise to what they play, and record them as close as possible to that style.
If you want to, you can hit me up and I can correspond with you, as far as more details as to how to record a particular style of music.
Cheers

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