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Looks like it has to do with my sound card. When you try to record a second track it copies the first track, even when you mute it. You can't hear it if it is muted, but it copies it. I tried another computer and it records the second track fine. Any ideas?

Ok, thanks. Will attack it again and see what happens. Thanks!

Well we have an older Yamaha soundboard that we connect to the computer via RCA chord. Then we plug headphones in to the audio out so we can hear track 1 while recording additional tracks. Pretty simple, or so we thought. It seemed to work before so we are trying to figure out what changed.

Confusing I know, sorry, but even with track 1 muted you can still hear track 1. doesn't make sense to us either.

You see the waveform from the first track in the new track. And it also distorts the first track by make a "swirling" sound effect on track one overall. We have used Audacity before and this is the first time we have seen this happen.

Recorded drums as our first track and attempted to record guitar on a 2nd. When you hit record you can see the audio profile from the first track while recording the second. Please help to figure out what the issue is.