Audacity Forum

Solved it.

I found this in the manual :-

Confirm the following settings in the Transport menu:-

Overdub (on/off) is checked (Mine was unchecked, selecting it made the difference)
Software Playthrough (on/off) is not checked.

Thanks to anyone who was pondering this.

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