Audacity Forum

Hi there, I am trying to achieve the simple goal of overdubbing guitar parts and vocals over an acoustic guitar rythm using audacity. I am using an Advent 9515 laptop, plugging my guitar stereo lead directly into the unit's mic port and listening back via the headphone socket.

When I play the track back, the overdubed parts are completely out of synch with the initial rythm track. I have ensured that the recording starts from the very beginning, point 0. I have also tried setting the project rate to different settings but it makes no difference. Can someone please tell me how to overcome this problem.

Regards,
Joe.

Could it be the case that the playback speed differs from the recording speed and how do I overcome this?

Can anyone offer advice ?

I had a similar problem last night. While attempting to record a 4th track of a song (bass), the track would slowly, but surely, drag farther and farther behind the original 3 tracks, to a point within the first 30 seconds of the song it was a whole beat behind. If I adjusted it on the front end, it would still end up dragging behind. Would love to hear what someone has to say about your question, might help mine as well.

J