Audacity Forum

hi
first of all let me explain the problem as best i can

i want to record a song with a click track for a school project using audacity.
the final version will have two tracks in audacity, the click track, and the guitar track. I will remove the click track and then export the song.
I have a mic in the mic input, and my headphones are in the output. When i record the second track(the guitar), i can hear the click track as i play.
But when i take away the click track after finishing the guitar track, the click track has been recorded onto the same track as the guitar. There is no way that the mic is picking up my head phones as they are earbuds, and also the click track that has been recorded over the guitar track is way too loud to have been picked up by the mic. I have tried every single setting and preference combination imaginable, and no luck.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

jahanrajabi wrote:I have tried every single setting and preference combination imaginable, and no luck.

You're probably looking in the wrong place. The audio source is not selected by Audacity, but by the Windows sound system.

There will be an audio mixer (may look like a loudspeaker in the sys tray near to the clock - double clicking on it should open the mixer window) that controls the ins and outs of your sound card. You need to set the recording input as the actual input that you are using (the mic. input). It is probably set to record "Stereo Mix", so you need to change it to "microphone".