Help me set up my mixing board :) po...

Hey all :)

I've been podcasting for a while and I finally took the plunge of buying a mixer (behringer 1002fx), and a Mic (again behringer, B-1 studio mic) to get me started in to it :)

I record it for the web, so in the end a mp3 is all that matters, mixed down.

What I would like to do though, is to spend less time mixing, and to try and do as much live as possible... For example, this is the elements I want to have:

Music
My voice
Other people (voices from a pc output)

What I can do if its just myself, is plug the mic into phantom, the output from the music pc into a line on the mixer deck. The mainout of the deck goes in to a pc, and is recorded.

Then I can fade and adjust levels as I want while im doing everything, record the whole thing in one pass, and its bliss.

When I want to go live though, there is a problem...

I still want to record everything (myself, music, and other people), as a high quality main mix. So I can record, and broadcast everything from the pc, which has me and other people, music all mixed in.

But if im using something to talk to people on the internet, then they will hear themselves in the mix when they talk! arrgh.

I'm really stumped about if there is a way to fix that and get around it.

If I could record two different copies of the mix, that would be awesome. And I thought I could, by plugging the control room mix to a different pc to record, and plug the other peoples voice in to the cd/tape input. That way, I can hear them mixed in on main out, but the control room out is mixed without the other peoples voices. BUT - when I try that, if I route cd/tape to control room, or the main mix, thats all I hear, not both of them. Hope that made sense!

So the setup:

Mixer board w/plenty of cables available

Going in to the mixer
Output of a pc (to record peoples voices)
Output of music
My voice (plugged into phantom)

Going out of mixer
main out in to a pc to record everything
- ideally I would like a secondary output, which is minus the peoples voices.

Please, if anyone understand that, let me know if you have any suggestions to help get this setup working :) I'm a newbie, but im having a lot of fun getting there.