newbie with behringer question

[dserious111]

Hey folks! I'm a newbie as far as mixers are concerned. I have a behringer 1204 fx pro mixer connected to my mbox. I have 2 mics connected to the mixer. The question is, is there a way that I can record each mic seperatly to its own track in a protools session? This would be really helpful, because when I record 2 people at the same time, their vocals end up on one track in protools. I need each person to have their own track. Hope I explained this clearly. Thx.

[Thunder33]

what soundcard are you using? basically you can pan one mic left and one right and then send each output from the mixer into a separate channel.

[Ford Van]

You ARE panning the vocals to far left and right on the mixer right?

After you are assured of that, then you have to make sure that each of the tracks in ProTools is getting it's input from the proper input on the soundcard. I don't know how you do that in ProTools, but I don't think it is that hard to figure out.

All should be well then.

[dserious111]

Okay how do you send each output to a seperate channel? I have an imac g5 which is running protools le 6.9 through an mbox. The mbox is connected to my monitors and my mixer. My mixer (behringer 1204fx pro) has 2 mics connected. No , I did not know to pan the mics left to right. So you are saying the panning won't be a problem?

[Thunder33]

if just run the left output to channel one on the M-box and the right output to channel two.

[dserious111]

Okay great! I got it! Thx a lot guys!

[Creamyapples1]

You could use the aux 1 and aux 2 sends to route the signals to the soundcard if you wanted to use the main bus of the mixer to monitor the rest of the mix through.

Example:
Channel 1 - Aux 1 turned up / Aux 2 turned all the way down - Aux 1 output going to channel one on the sound-interface.

Channel 2 - Aux 1 turned all the way down / Aux 2 turned up - Aux 2 output going to channel two on the sound-interface.


Channel 3 - <insert instrument here> output 1 from sound-interface - with both aux 1 & 2 all the way down for that channel, and repeat for each subsequent channel.


You could hear it all on the main bus and still isolate channels 1 and 2 for recording purposes. Though running straight out of the Mbox to monitors pretty much yields the same results, I'm sure.

I use a similar setup, but I use my board to route the input signals and monitor playback at the same time, so I don't have to tinker on multiple devices.