Audacity Forum

In Audacity's Edit -> Preferences -> Audio I/O menu, make sure "Play other tracks..." is ON.

Also, make sure you wear headphones while recording with a mic or you'll pick up both tracks and won't be able to mix properly.

It's hard to find a concise tutorial on the web about mixing music. So let me list some basic steps here and perhaps those of you who REALLY know what you're doing can elaborate on or correct this list and we can all learn how to produce decent mixes. The reason you can't find any concise tutorials...

The Guitar Port isn't keeping up with the recording. This could be due to a faulty Guitar Port, a bad cable, a bad USB port, bad drivers, or trying to record at a sample rate that the Guitar Port doesn't support. I think the Guitar Port comes with ASIO drivers, you need to make sure it isn't using t...

Three of those issues you mentioned lead me to believe it's the mic cable. And the problem with 'P' sounds (aka plosives) is due to the lack of a pop filter on the mic. Usually when you use a mic live, the mixer has a 100Hz low cut filter applied that deals with plosives pretty well, but you don't h...

How can I increase the recording level w/o increasing the house levels? You most likely have three options. 1) You didn't say what kind of sound card the computer has. If it supports 32-bit or 24-bit recording, then just set Audacity to record at a higher bit depth and let it record at a lower leve...

what does it mean when album tracks you recorded separately all playback simultaneously?

It means Audacity is working correctly.

You've got the wrong recording device selected in Audacity. Go to the Edit -> Preferences -> Audio I/O menu and select the right Recording Device. Right now you're set up to record the speaker output.

Why are you trying to get two programs to record at the same time? Unless you have two different sound cards, I think this is impossible. I don't think the drivers would allow this. If you want to try though, I know the keyboard shortcut to record in Audacity is 'r'. But Audacity has to be the selec...

I would leave the Audio to Buffer field alone. Mine defaulted to 100msec. I'm not certain of what it does, but I think it's a playback delay. If you set it too low, Audacity has trouble playing files. I think this number will need to be higher for people making multi-track recordings, since Audacity...

Mine fails too, I tried a number of different settings.

I wouldn't worry about it.