Audacity Forum

Stereo Mix is the system that contains Everything Playing On The Computer . So when you overdub with Stereo Mix on, Audacity will make the second track, the overdubbed one, with Everything. That's why you get the original track plus the new one. If you kept doing that, the new overdub tracks would g...

thx for reply. ok let me be a bit more clearer as i have not recorded from youtube or anything like that. also I am not HEARING double tracks as it records. Overdub is the only thing ticked on that panel. Stereo mix is on via windows 7 mixer, (Turning it off prevents any recording for me in audacity...

Overdub should be the only thing you have selected in that panel. You should be recording from your sound device only and not Stereo Mix or anything else. Audacity should be set to play to your speaker, headphone or sound device depending on where it needs to go. Other combinations will give you ech...

... I record for just 3 second, the lines movi up and down but I press stop to stop the recording and edit it everything become straight! Please help! I uninstalled it and installed it again many time but the same problem keeps on happening.

... have all been tried to no avail. So either I'm doing something wrong or this problem is a new twist. I suspect the former. In any case...please help.

Have a seriously annoying issue, using audacity on windows 7. When I tick overdub the track is meant to play while I record a new one, (Which it was doing fine yesterday) but today for no reason, what is happening is that the new track is also RECORDING THE TRACK I AM PLAYING?? Whatever I do i canno...

Thank you. I really appreciate your help.

TnT

... that's about it. It made fabulous, lossless recordings. That's what I'm looking for. How do I uninstall Audacity and Soundflower? Thanks for your help. TnT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7l4xIGcE_k
this will help!

... mess with normal computer sound. I still have Audacity on my computer and it wouldn't let me record more than few minutes before it stopped. Use Help > About and see what the version is. Some of the very early versions didn't get along well with Win7. Read out the full program name. It's possible ...