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August 31, 2023
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Recording vocals and Instrumental at the same time! Need Help!

  • August 31, 2023
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I need to know what I'm doing wrong. I last used audition with a PC years ago.  I have a Behringer Xenyx802 Mixer connected to my iMac using a NT1 5th generation mic connected through XLR cable into the mixer and the mixer is a usb connection. I have been working for hours on this and the mic and instrumental record at the same time. I spent a lot of time and money ordering cables, new studio set up and was excited to get on Adobe Audition again but theres just no solution. It appears I'd be better off just plugging a $30 usb mic directly into my mac a doing it like that instead of a recording artist. I've tried all the outputs and inputs channel mapping. I've searched for the answer for hours it appears nobody else on planet earth has ever encountered this dilemma, or maybe Audition isnt the right software for reording music anymore. Does anyone know how to record on the mic through a mixer wearing headphones, you know like what a singer does using this software?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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August 31, 2023

At a minimum, we'd need to see some screenshots of how you've got this set up. Audition is perfectly capable of recording in the way you want, but you do have to set it up correctly, and I'm afraid that your mixer isn't exactly going to help, as it's rather basic for this sort of operation. If you can get the mixer set up so that you can get an instrument into one of the stereo channels and a vocal into the other (you'll have to use the pan pots) you should be able to feed it as stereo into Audition, and by careful channel selection, record each half of the stereo across two tracks, (one channel each). Because of the limitations of the mixer, you won't be able to monitor anything from Audition whilst recording - the only monitoring you will be able to achieve is in the mixer itself.

 

 

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KreditAuthor
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August 31, 2023

Here are some screenshots, and I've tried all of the options, I suppose mixers are becoming irrelavent and we need 8 usb ports on comuters now. Whats the point if you can run a mic and external speakers and headphones all from one anoalog source. If you could tell me how to set this and what to do if its possible to not have to set the pan on every track, which might be unavoidable. I'm just not used to this software being so difficult but it has been 5 or 6 years since my last album and I'm solo now, my audio engineerer passed away couple years ago. I appreciate any help.

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