Recording from a home mixer

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Hi folks. Would appreciate a little help. Have a very simple (= cheap :eek: ) home setup - don't shoot me on choice of hardware, it's budget and I know it is! ;) :p

I have a simple home setup which is based around a cheapy Behringer 1002. There are two drum modules which plug in to the mixer (via a Behringer RX1602) triggered by an Alesis electronic drum kit. I have an iPod attached to the TAPE IN on the 1002. I select "CD/TAPE to Mix" on the 1002 and (point of the setup being -) I can play the drumkit along to my iPod via headphones plugged in to the 1002.

The question is: I want to record the output of the drums. (I'm not talking studio quality here, just good enough so I can listen back to what I'm doing.) The TAPE OUT on the Mixer is going in to a Minidisc player and it records fine, however, it records everything (i.e., the drums and the sound from the iPod) - I want to isolate the drum track and record that only. Is there a way to do this?

On the mixer is another option - "CD/TAPE to Control" - then it works (i.e., only the drum track is sent to the minidisc deck - I can tell because the input levels on the display make it obvious) BUT in my headphones I can then only hear the music on the iPod - i.e., I can't actually hear what I'm playing.

So what I'd like to do is: play along to the iPod but send the drum track only to the minidisc player.

Hope that's clear... let me know if not! Thanks for any help.. :)
 
It's pretty limioted on routing like you said. You could try playback of the ipod on say 7/8 with nothing going to the effects and then record out of the effects send of the drum channels? Or maybe try the same with the monitor channel?
 
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CD/TAPE to control should be ON.
CD/TAPE to Main should be off.

iPod should come in the CD?TAPE IN and you should record the signal out of the CD/TAPE out.

Lemme know if this works, i have a Behringer mixer too and do almost the same thing but with tracks ive already recorded instead of an iPod comming in.
 
hi... thanks for replies.

BigMuffinMan- have tried that but there's a problem. The drum track only is being sent to the minidisc player BUT i can't actually hear the drums (only the ipod) in the headphones whilst i'm playing it... any thoughts?
 
Try routing the iPod to a regular input channel and assign the output to the monitor section. Assign the drums to the main mix buss.
 
M1Fanatic said:
Try routing the iPod to a regular input channel and assign the output to the monitor section. Assign the drums to the main mix buss.
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Thanks, but the mixer doesn't have such control over routing.
 
Sorry.

You need a more advanced mixer. You can never have too much mixer no matter what sort of recording you are doing.
 
M1Fanatic said:
You need a more advanced mixer. You can never have too much mixer no matter what sort of recording you are doing.
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Hah... well, any excuse to buy more gear.... no, no, must not!

I'm sure there's a way around it with what I have... one I can think of is to route everything (i.e., output of submixer) through the minidisc player on its way in to the main mixer... but then I will need the minidisc on record pause all the time for everything to work, which I was hoping to avoid...
 
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