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FClintD
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March 9, 2017
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[Help] Recording Podcast on XENYX Q802USB to Adobe Audition?

  • March 9, 2017
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So here is everything in my setup involving the mixer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Zga88U0PtJZEI0YjhCYTFFdlk/view?usp=sharing

And here are my Audition settings: Audio Settings - Google Drive

I'm admittedly a little novice at this and just trying to simply record my voice in Adobe Audition. I have Audition on the MME interface with USB Codec playback and recording.

My computer isn't recognizing the sound at all. What am I doing wrong?

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Bob Howes
Bob Howes
Inspiring
March 9, 2017

From your second picture that shows USB Audio Codec for the record and play devices, it looks like Audition is seeing your mixer--many/most Behringer devices show up as USB Audio Codec.

A couple of suggestions:  first, for recording, set up a new Multitrack session, making sure the settings for Sample Rate and Bit Depth are the same as the mixer (probably 16 bit/44.1kHz).  Then, on the track you want to record to, go to the input selection (in the control panel at the left end of the track, a drop down menu marked with a right-facing arrow)   Click on the box (which will likely say "None" to start with).  You'll get a box offering something like "None (Default Stereo Input), Mono, or Stereo.  Click on Mono it it should offer you the option of USB Audio Codec 1 or 2....select 1.  On your mixer, pan the mic channel hard left.   If you ever want to record 2 mics at once, make another track's input USB Audio Codec 2 and pan that channel hard right on the mixer.

Playback will be via the mixer as well.  On the box marked "USB/2-track" select the "To Phones/Cntrl Room" option and this should give you sound either to monitor speakers or headphones plugged into the appropriate socket.

One thing to note is that, due to limitations of your mixer, you'll have to monitor your mic after a round trip via your computer.  This can result in annoying latency.  Minimise this by setting the latency/buffer size on Audition's Audio Hardware menu as low as you can get away with before you start to get glitches in your recording.

anson7
anson7
Participant
July 24, 2017

Bob, you just saved my life!

I have a Xenyx Q802USB. I have attached a condenser MIC to input 1 and an acoustic guitar amp to input 3(using input 2 gives me some hum). I want to play and sing together, but record 2 separate output files in audition. one for mic 1 and one for guitar in 3.

I have the Asio driver installed. I have selected mono codec 1 for track 1 and codec 2 for track 2 in a multisession. So far what would happen is I'd get one mixed output file in both tracks, of mic and guitar. I tried your suggestion of panning mic 1 hard left and guitar on 3 hard right and voila! I got 2 separate respective files.

Now I do not know if this is a suggested solution for my problem but it works so I;ll use it for now. Is there a correct way to doing this? Or is this the only solution?

Your response will greatly help me.

And thanks again

Bob Howes
Bob Howes
Inspiring
July 26, 2017

On  a small mixer, this is the correct/only solution.  A larger, more complex mixer would allow some form of "direct out" from each channel but, since you mixer only has two outputs (i.e. one stereo) the hard panning is totally normal.

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