Hey I just started trying Audacity recently and wanted to create a bass track. I set up the click track and tried to record but the click track kept recording over the new audio file, so I can’t listen to the metronome and record a different audio file. I tried looking up tutorials but they never went over this problem and I couldn’t find it in FAQ. Thanks for your time.
It is a common problem, but I don’t think there is a pre-baked answer, I suspect because the solution is a bit open ended.
Anyway, start here.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/avoid-hearing-previous-tracks-on-new-track-while-recording/42576/2
This is the open-ended part of the problem: Do you remember the settings you changed in order to record YouTube Audio (assuming you did)? Don’t do that.
Koz
Thanks for the reply, I tried going into Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording and looking If anything else was selected besides overdub. I even tried to turn overdub off and it seemed cut out the drums on the 1st track but I’m unable to listen to it while recording another track. I also looked at
Audacity Device Toolbar > Microphone Symbol (recording) and made sure my USB Audio CODEC was selected, which it was. I also don’t do anything with Youtube Audio which I understand also records onto tracks while playing. I realized it’s not just the click tracks that are causing this, it seems to be a bigger problem that allows all tracks to keep recording on top of each other. Turning off overdub did stop it but it doesn’t allow me to listen to tracks without re-recording. Sorry if I left anything out and I will keep trying to mess around with the forum page you sent me. I recently built my computer and have recently updated all my drivers so I don’t think the problem lies within my sound device drivers, I could still be wrong tho. My speakers are also using the USB Audio CODEC, which is my Zed60 14fx board. I don’t have regular speakers so I’ve been plugging my headphones into the sound board, is all this normal or am I doing something wrong?
all tracks to keep recording on top of each other.
Right. The production keeps getting geometrically louder and more complex as you go. [New Performance] + [Everything Else].
I even tried to turn overdub off and it seemed cut out the drums on the 1st track but I’m unable to listen to it while recording
That’s a data point we haven’t gotten yet. So it’s not any old generic sneak pathway. It has to do with how Audacity manages the headphone playback while you’re recording the fresh track.
One poster managed to get down to the bottom of the solution list and I don’t think we ever figured out where his bad recording pathway was. But like clockwork, the minute he setup for overdubbbing, all the old tracks appeared.
I’m chewing over that post. I was going to ask you what your playback device (little speaker symbol) was, but you already told me. USB Audio CODEC. And your recording device is USB Audio CODEC. I don’t know exactly how the driver software works, but I think it’s better than even shot you’re playing the headphone music straight back into the recording system with the drivers like that.
Do a test where you try an overdub, but turn the Audacity speaker symbol slider all the way off. I know you can’t hear anything, but I’d be fascinated if the overdub music records missing the old tracks.
Koz