Need Help With Recording W Behringer

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Okay, so I have always been interested in recording so I finally got a nice Behringer MX 2004A 20 channel mixer. It was quite a leap from having zero to having twenty but I gotta record using at least nine mics at once for my drumset. I now have nine mics and cords and stands and all that, but I have no good way of getting the sound from mixer to computer. I have been using the tape output with a radioshack adapter to go into the mic input on my comp, but I can't pan left or right or get stereo sound. I really don't want to spend much more.. it's already been about $700. SO basically, I need a way to take mixer to computer and be able to use the pan and stereo the mixer provides. Got help?
 
are you saying you want to be able to have the mics go in separately so that you can pan the separate tracks?

or are you saying you just want a stereo signal from your mixer and you will pan on the mixer?

I think its number 2, and if it is, if your mic in isn't a stereo in, you can get a 2-channel m-audio card for cheap so that you can have stereo
 
If you're going in Stereo and want good quality A/D/A for not much money, get an EMU 0404. It has the inputs for 1/4" cables. More compatible with the output of your mixer.
 
If you're looking to get 9 inputs into the computer on seperate tracks, you have two options that i know of...the MOTU 24i/o and the MOTU 192HD. The 24 i/o is self explanatory by the name, and the 192HD has twelve inputs and is really great IMO. However, both of those will run you roughly in the $1500 range and I'm not sure what they're at on Ebay. There may be other options, but I doubt any of them are going to be cheap at all. The M-Audio Delta1010 has 8 inputs and I think is about $500...

If you get good enough at it, and used to pre-setting levels that will be close enough for most songs you record, the stereo input is a very viable solution. One solution you could try also if you're going to go the stereo route is to pre-record all the other tracks to a click, then go back and do your drums. That way you could more appropriately mix the levels of the drums to the pre-existing tracks. Hope this helps, and good luck!
 
Well what it is that I want to do is simply take the left and right outputs from the back of my mixer and somehow plug in that left cord and right cord into my computer. I assume I need some sort of pci card? I have heard a lot about these EMU's being cheap and all. So with an EMU pci card, could I plug in the two cords form my mixer's main output? And I now realize that there are certain stereo and mono inputs and I have only been using mono. Duh. But it looks like the four stereo inputs have actually two inputs, a left and right. Does that mean I need two mics for one stereo track? AHHH
 
the mono inputs can still be panned to either the left or right side via the pan knobs. the stereo inputs with the L and R inputs...will be either L or R depending on which one you plug them into. so assuming you plug some overheads into one of your stereo inputs...OH L goes in left, OH R goes in right. if you have a mic only in the left input, it will still work, it doesn't need both sides. basically the stereo inputs are just a good way for behringer to up the specs because the L and R count as two inputs even though it's on one channel strip.

so to overview...just plug in your mics to whatever you want...mono or stereo...pan and/or choose the side you want with your stereo inputs...run the cords from the mixer to the soundcard (the emu is a great card from what i here)...and that should be that.
 
Oh! Well that's not what I thought Stereo would mean.. yeah well. But thank you very much! I will now put my two overheads into the stereo inputs. Basically I have to get a soundcard then I will be set! Thank you everyone.
 
if you just want 2 channels in, you can get a behriner FCA202 for 80 bucks.
i cant vouch for it, ive never used it, but it looks simple enough, and it is firewire.
 
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