Hiya Twonk,
I am in Lincoln, actually, so I'm pretty close to Omaha. Don't go there too much, but your girlfriend's band sounds fun. Did you say where she would be playing? I've sang some places there, maybe she'll be going someplace I've been, and I can give her a heads up on the place...maybe she's been there.
Thanks Tex...for the support.
As for the other deal, does the pa have main outs on it besides what you'd hook the loud ass speakers up to? Actually, maybe if you don't need the speakers, you would just use those outputs anyway. I will likely make absolutely no sense here.
I don't know jack squat about the pa, but you should be able to take the outputs in your Layla (1 and 2 are the default stereo output channels directly into an in on your pa, don't know if you'd need left/right or left only, oh you said stereo, my bad. Then you'd bring the output of the pa back into a track on your Layla, or into the mackie, then out of it, into the Layla. I don't know if you could take the PA out and direct it straight in to the Layla. It would do SOMETHING, I'm just not sure what.
But, this is a bit over my head, unless I could look at everything out in front of me. I usually just look at everything and imagine in my head visually the signal's path. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't! LOL. I just experiment generally until it works, although one day, I'll probably be breaking something! That day is gonna hurt. It's the way I figure this stuff out though...
I guess this is another question I have regarding this question...do you NEED to take the already recorded track from the mackie, or can you just take it straight out of the computer from your Layla? This second option should actually work, and then you may need to bring it back into the Mackie from the PA, onto a different track, then mix the two as you wish, or just double it onto the track you've already got? Not sure what the effect is you're trying to accomplish, but I don't ever get that far myself anyway!!!!! I never even finish my songs.
I bet the Mackie has some inserts that could be implemented well in this usage, but I don't have a Mackie. And it's likely you wouldn't even need to bother with those for any reason.
Was that at all helpful? Or a big circle of nothing?
Kirstin