Very confused! Help Please!

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Hello! I am new to the phones and have been DJ'ing for a few years so I am some what musically inclined. I have a few friends that are interested in recording and I told them I would help them record because I do have some recording equipment. We setup a booth in the closet with foam and everything we are just having trouble setting everything up to work flawless.
The equipment I have are listed below:
Macbook Pro
Audacity
Behringer xenyx 1222 fx
Behringer U-control usb
A few Behringer mics

Now the problem we are having is that we want the person recording in the recording booth to hear their voice and the beat while everyone sitting in the family room can hear the beat and the recorders voice live. Is this possible? If so how would we set it up to do this with the equipment I listed above? Also would it be possible to make it so the person in the recording booth only hears the beat in the headphones while everyone sitting in the family room can hear the beat and recorders voice live?

Thank you in advance we have all been trying to figure this out for a few days and are very confused!
 
Do some reading. A 'vocal booth' with foam in it is going to sound like crap.

Plug the mic into the U-control input. USB of the U-conrol to the comp[uter. Take the audio output from the U-control to an input in the Xenyx mixer. Headphones out of the Xenyx to the guy on the mic. Main output of the Xenyx to powered speakers in your listening room.
Note that doing this is going to mean there is going to be latency (delay) in what the the guy in the booth hears. I dont' know the U-control, but doubt it offers direct monitoring, but that's what you need - an audio interface with direct monitoring capability.


*just corrected a mis-type*
 
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Tom Hicks said:
mic - mixer - interface - computer.

monitor off the mixer for no lag. for multiple peope listening to the monitor mix, you need a headphone amp. here's a cheap one.
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Thanks for all the responses! My last question is instead of getting a headphone amp would i be able to use a headphone splitter and use the splitter for the headphone output on the mixer and split it between the headphones and speakers?

so it would be like this for the input:
mic-->mixer-->input on interface-->computer

and this for the output:
computer-->output on interface-->input of mixer

then the split the headphone jack between the speakers and headphones

Havent had time to try that but it sounds like it would work and do you think there would be any latency if I set it up like this?

Thanks for the help you all have been very helpful!
 
I've corrected my post above - got distracted!

You can't use the mixer for your headphone-speaker output if you have the mic plugged into it because it doesn't have a way to separate the mic input and the return signal from the computer - you'll get a feedback loop.
 
you can use a Y cord to split the signal, but that also drops the voltage and volume going to each set of phones. you could probably get away with doing that with just 2 pairs of headphones, and jacking up the mixer's headphone out volume knob to compensate. but that means both phones would have to be at the same level. further splitting of the signal with more Y cords would be iffy.

use the mixer channel insert jacks or direct outs to feed the individual inputs of your interface (if insert jacks are used , "half jack" a regular mono plug, or add a stereo adapter and fully insert). mixer phone jacks feed the phones, mixer main L&R outputs feed the powered speakers, or feed the amp that powers the passive speakers.
 
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