OK, your Behringer 802 is a tiny version of my mixer and it has an effects send (the red knobs).
I have record with a band before (as a musician, definitely not as a sound engineer) and we had TONS of tracks recording at once.
No doubt they were set up for multi-track recording, and by set up, I mean they had a multi-track sound card, drivers and the multi-track recording software to go with it. We wrote a thing about this. Audacity can record multiple tracks if you can get your computer to supply it.
All the mixer does is volume control all the inputs, six in my case and four in yours, and mixes them down to one stereo show. Plug the mixer output into a stereo recorder and press record. Only the super high-end studio mixers give you individual input copies so you can feed a multi-track recorder.
To do a good job with this, you have to create and manage four different sound feeds.
– The Mixed Show
– The Skype guest voice
– The show minus the guest that the guest hears. In broadcast this is called Mix Minus.
– The Music/Effects/Themes
Computers have two channels. Stereo Record and Stereo Playback. All Stereo Mix does is jam them together so you can record what’s playing.
Since you got all this to work, post a sample. Play music in the background, talk to a person on Skype. Ask them if they can hear the music OK. Fade down and change the music and fade it back up.
Stereo Mix tends to really screw up Skype, and if you feed Stereo Mix to the guest, they will get their own voice delayed and garbled in their headphones. You may get delay feedback, too, that pumping effect. I have a sample of the one I did, but it’s not on this computer and its too late to go find it. Rain Check.
Win7 has no provision to open up more than one sound channel, so I really wonder how you got music, your voice and Skype in the same show.
Koz