To control pro tools after you record you need a digidesign approved control surface. Focusrite makes a decent little model it runs about a grand and has room to control 8 tracks at once. If you're trying to use a regular mixer to mix after the recording process you're screwed, the only thing you could do with that is route the xlrs from the mixer to the berhringer, then all you could do is use the mixers fx(once they're on there they can't be removed) and the eq(same deal as the fx).

I got some good news and bad news - well mostly bad news. Because the audio of each individual track is controlled and stored by your computer it wouldn't make a difference even if you had a "digidesign approved" surface. Your computer is doing most of the work so the only real solution is a faster computer.

OR

Other things to consider are;
- try using lower sampling rates - 24 bit/44.1 should be enuf
- when mixing make sure your latency levels are set to the lowest settings possible for mix down
- make sure you are using buses for CPU hog plug in's like drum reverbs.
- if you have a reasonably new computer you shouldn't have that much of a problem unless you are using 20,000 plugs. If you are a plug maniac consider investing in UAD-1 cards and/or one decent external hardware based reverb.

Good Luck

you could start mixing out of the box, but the bad news there is that you'd need outboard compressors and reverbs...

what you'd do is go in thru the 002 and/or ada8000, or even direct outs to the 002... then when it comes time to mixdown, run tracks out thru the outputs back thru your mixer and mix there.. youre basically using your HD as a tape machine.

bb

If you were dead set on using an analog mixer, with absolutely no automation, Brad's suggestion would work. It would, however, be a hell of a lot cheaper to get a faster computer - than a new mixer and outboard gear.