

With acoustic drums you shouldn’t have to “monitor” yourself at all! You just need to hear the existing back-up track in your headphones and you should still be able to hear your drums while wearing the headphones. Assuming I use the USB cable, setup the Audacity USB input/output preferences between the mixer and laptop, set up the 4 drum mics correctly and use headphones to monitor - is there any problem expected to monitor the playback and the live drum input while recording the live drums as a new track to accompany the playback track?.Thanks for any information you can provide. Is the “TO PHONES/CTRL RM” button pressed and the “TO MAIN MIX” button not pressed in order to make this work?Įverything I’ve seen says I can’t and shouldn’t use the Behringer AISO drivers. I’m hoping to get some clarification.Īssuming I use the USB cable, setup the Audacity USB input/output preferences between the mixer and laptop, set up the 4 drum mics correctly and use headphones to monitor - is there any problem expected to monitor the playback and the live drum input while recording the live drums as a new track to accompany the playback track? This solution negates the usefulness of the mixer USB connection, which doesn’t make sense to me.

I have seen the “mix-minus” setup solution online. I seen much discussion here and on YouTube about problems monitoring a playback while monitoring live mics and recording new tracks to accompany the original. I understand the latency issue between the playback and the new track and know how to adjust in Audacity. I understand the latency issue between live playback and monitoring via Audacity, so I have purchased the mixer to fix by monitoring via the mixer. The drum tracks are intended to be separate from the playback track but part of the playback file. I intend to use the mixer to mic an acoustic drum set and add drum tracks to files provided by others using the Q1202USB mixer and Audacity. I have installed Audacity and been able to record via a USB and monitor with headphones. My XENYX Q1202USB will be received tomorrow.
