overdubbing

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I’m using Windows 7 and Audacity 2.3.3.

I’ve generated a click track of about 3 minutes long.

I then create a new mono track and press the home key to get to the beginning of the click track. I select the new track and press the ‘R’ key and Audacity starts recording to the new track just after the end of the click track. This is not what I want at all. I would like to record over the click track I’ve created from the beginning. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

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Appending recording is now the default setting in Audacity.
If you want to go back to the old way where it always starts recording from zero,
go to Audacity Preferences : Recording, & tick “Record on a new track”,
see … https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_preferences.html

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R and Shift+R are backwards. You can just know that, or, as above, reverse it back the way it was in Audacity preferences.

Koz