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https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html Sometimes you can use the machines built-in services and tools. Sometimes you have to install special software. In general you have to use software that redirects sound from playback (from the internet) to reco...

You're going to experience all the audiobook problems. "I can hear traffic sounds, my background noise is too loud, I have clicky sounds, I sound like I'm recording in a bathroom," etc. You in particular probably shouldn't be recording anything on the computer. This is an affordable home s...

If all your performances involve virtual instruments, then the answer to your earlier post is yes, you need two machines for successful overdubbing. To record your instruments, you have to have a Playback/Record cross. For successful overdubbing you have to not have a Playback/Record cross. The only...

they were posting last year...

I think that posting is when we fall back on the forum format. Users helping each other. We should wait for someone who has the same devices, connections, and setup to help.

Koz

How do people usually do this? Do you really need to get a 2nd PC to play into the first one? I think this may be just a process problem. You need to cross the Playback and Recording barrier to record your virtual instruments. After you get your instrumental backing track recorded you have to destr...

I went back and edited my original (complaining) post

Don't do that. It makes following the conversation impossible.

You're just concerned with your postings. We're trying to follow all of them.

Koz

And yes, you do want overdubbing. Clean copies of your voice by itself and not duplicate copies of the drum or other backing track.

Koz

And why did people stop answering you when you finally made it clear what you wanted? It's a forum, users helping each other, not a Help Desk. Sometimes, a response has to come from the other side of the earth, so the responder has to be awake in their time zone . Audacity routes the existing recor...

This is a slightly older post with a list of common ways of getting too many copes of the backing track.

viewtopic.php?p=419193#p419193

Koz

Do you have your book picked out? The above tools only deal with the mechanical and electrical specifications of your sound files. You also have to be able to read well (there's no good way to automate voice quality testing) and ACX has some other items. -- They used to offer to analyze a short test...