Audacity Forum

I am wondering if the problem could be with my computer hardware, the sound device. Maybe the playback automatically goes on the record track at that level. Any ideas? I am a newbie at this so I have very little experience in the area.

The drum track is an imported mp3. So there is no input line on that. When I record my guitar through the mic, it is coming from the computer Realtek card Input Level In, through a preamp. I put my headphones on, so that I don't get feedback, listen to the drum track while recording the guitar. But ...

I have an mp3 drum track I imported, and I want to listen to this while recording a new guitar track. I can do this but the problem is the drum track records over the new track very loudly. I don't want it to record in the new track at all. I just want to mix the 2 separate tracks. The guitar is aco...