How to record music from mixer to PC?

[H3x0S]

Here is what I have:

Mixer - Yamaha EMX 5000
Microphone(s) - Shure SM58
Guitar
Built-In soundcard

Microphones and Guitar are connected into mixer.
How can I record music from mixer to PC? Can someone guide me through a whole process?

[robogone]

It depends on what you have as inputs and outputs as you have to match the impedences. If you have line level out and line level in you can just connect them together.

You should get a DI box to plug the guitar into the mixer, but you should be able to go straight into the mixer with the mic.

[H3x0S]

I know how to connect things to mixer, but I don't know how to send everything to PC.

[robogone]

Look on the back of the mixer and see if there is text by each output. You might have a line out option as well as speakers outputs, and you might be able to connect that to a line in on your PC (with a 1/4 to 1/8 converter).

[H3x0S]

Yeah, I connected it. Problem is that I can't setup it properly into Audacity/Windows.

[robogone]

You will need to set your audio properties so that you have a sound recording device (your sound card) set up and that the input level for that is high enough.

Then for Audacity you would select your soundcard's driver (you might have a list of more than one - try them all out) so that Audacity knows where to get sound from.

[BertKoor]

Probably the outputs of the mixer are 1/4" TRS format. The line input of a built-in soundcard is usually a 3.5mm stereo plug. Use a standard cheap adapter cable as used for personal audio with a 3.5mm stereo plug on one side and two (white & red) RCA plugs on the other. Then with a pair of cheap 1/4" TS --> RCA adapters, the cable can be fitted to go into the 1/4" outputs of the mixer.

Then it's a matter of selecting the proper audio device as the default for recording in the Sounds control panel, and selecting only the Line Input channel in the Volume Mixer's "Recording" properties.