Audacity Forum

I am wondering if the problem is in the fact that I'm recording through a mixer board. The mike is plugged into the mixer, as is my computer. The mixer is USB enabled. When I'm recording, is it somehow picking up the accompaniment because it's being channeled through the mixer? Is the answer wiring ...

Ok...recording again...and once again hearing the accompaniment in the background of my vocal. I have no idea why. While playing back I reduce the volume all the way on the accompaniment track, playing only the vocal track, and I hear the accompaniment. I turn the vocal volume down, and the accompan...

Wait! I may have fixed it. Set all recording preferences on USB AUDIO CODEC, plug it all in and turn in all on BEFORE launching Audacity, and ...what else? I have no idea why it's working now but wasn't yesterday. I'd better hurry and make my recordings before the demons possess it again. Thanks! TnT

I'm trying to solve this by process of elimination. Trying every possible configuration of Preferences. It seems the problem is in Audacity Preferences>Devices. When Recording Device is set to Built-in Microphone, it works fine. But when I switch to the only other alternative, Apowersoft_AudioDevice...

It helps somewhat. However, something still eludes me. I'm still recording accompaniment on the vocal track. Accompaniment is on its own track, and also being recorded along with my voice on the vocal track. I don't know how to separate the two.

I'm fairly new to Audacity. I'm trying to record a vocal over accompaniment that I composed, in mpeg form. Using a good external mike through a mixer board. Can't get preferences correct. I want to hear the accompaniment on one stereo track, thru headphones, while recording vocal on another. The bes...