Recording from a Mixer

Alrighty, i’ll definitley give this panning method a shot. Would I just pan each mic to a side, and then in cubase record the left to one track and the right to another? I reviewed my laptop’s specifications and saw that the mic in was a mono input. I will still give this a shot.

On another note, I have been considering the usefulness of my mixer altogether… I sense that a mic->interface->laptop set-up would be simpler and just as good as a mic->mixer->interface->laptop configuration. What use is a mixer, if cubase has most of the functionalities that my physical mixer provides?