Best way to record with this Rig?

[dogwreck]

I am very new to this Recording stuff but I want to learn. I have a Bluegrass band and have recorded previously with Mbox 2 Pro-tools and Using only 2 mics, wich is typical for smaller bluegrass bands performing live. I have a Behringer Europower PMP2000 for live sound. Is there anyway I can hook all the mikes up to the mixer then run that to my Mbox and record on the PC? What I am after is recording everyone on a seperate track without having to record everyone seperate at different times. When we reocrd with just the mbox and the mics , somone is either too loud or too soft and I would like to control that with the mixer.
My equipment again is a Behringer Europower 2000, 5 mics, Mbox 2 and a laptop using Pro-tools. I know there is some on here that could work wonders with this and I would love to hear some advice on how to best utilize this for a recording rig? Thanks in advance and thanks to all the sound men behind the scene who make us sound better that we really are .

Dogwreck

 

[mattr]

Hi there,

The mbox only has two inputs (ignoring the digital ones), so I'm afraid you can go no further unless you invest in another interface. Also at a quick glance down the specs, the mixer has no inserts/direct-outs on each channel, or even auxs/groups/busses which could be used as workarounds to this.

You're probably looking at something like a Motu 8pre, Presonus FP10/firestudio, Tascam US-1641, etc etc, which would be a complete solution (removing the mixer from the equation). If you picked one with decent live monitoring (the Motu Cuemix-DSP is one...) then you could still have a mix sent back from the interface into the mixer/PA system for live SR / monitoring. If you wanted to stick with Protools LE then you could pick up one of the Digidesign 003 racks, or one of the M-audio interfaces with Protools M-powered.

Or you could carry on like you are but use some headphones and make sure that the live mix is dead-on for recording (this may be detrimental to the live sound though if you're mixing for the headphones and not the room); you'll never get very satisfactory results like this either.