Greetings,
I’m using Audacity 2.4.2 on a Mac running OS 10.13.6.
I am able to generate a “rhythm track“ (a.k.a. “click track“) OK, but;
When I play this back through headphones which are plugged into my audio interface, the Metronome clicks are almost completely in audible. Likewise, if I start recording a second track, trying to follow the rhythm track, I still can’t hear it. However, once that second track is recorded, in the playback I can hear both the rhythm track, full y audible, along with the 2nd. After that, while recording any further tracks, the rhythm track is fully audible, as long as BOTH it and that 2nd track are not muted. If I mute that 2nd track, the rhythm track again becomes inaudible. It’s not that the metronome clicks have somehow got into the 2nd track: If I mute the rhythm track it disappears, even though I leave the 2nd track at full volume.
(The rhythm track plays fine thru the computer’s built-in audio, but of course I don’t want that playing aloud while and getting picked up my the mic while I’m recording a track.)
This makes no sense to me.
The audio interface in question is an iRig PRE HD, an otherwise excellent piece of equipment.
Any ideas how/why this is happening and how to make it work correctly?
Kurt B.