Yamaha mixer mg82 to garageband

Gday everyone
I have a Yamaha MG82cx mixer into which I plug electric drum kit, acoustic guitars, microphone and keyboard.
I would really like to be able to record by playing my instruments into the mixer and being able to record them one by one in garageband, then layer them over each other.
The mixer doesn't have a MIDI port, but it does have ports that say about it REC OUT and STEREO OUT (which i usually plug into a PA)
I was trying to plug in a headphone jack lead straight from stereo out into my macbook pro with no luck.
Any suggestions welcome!
Cheers!

First having a MIDI port has nothing with recording audio.
Now you should be able to plug either stereo out or record out into the macbook to record as long as your sending the input signal to the record out or main out.
Did you select built in input in Garageband > preferences > Audio Midi?

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