Audacity Forum

Okay, I had this same problem before but it was never resolved. I'll use an example to make things clearer for everyone:

Say I record a drum track, then I go to lay a guitar track over it. I don't use the "playback during recording" feature. I just use the mix knob on my interface so there's no need. But I do need other tracks to play back during recording, so I have that clicked on. When I press play the drum track sounds fine, but when I hit record and begin to lay one track on top of the other, the sound is off time and distorted. Once I'm done recording, when I press play both tracks play crystal clear (except my guitar is off time due to the existing tracks playing back wrong).

This only happens when I set recording to mono. When I set it to stereo there is no problem, except guitars send a mono signal and when they're recorded in stereo it only plays in one ear. So I really need some help. Either a complete fix to the problem, or if there's a way I can just make the stereo guitar switch to mono. I've already tried copying the guitar tracks contents to a new mono channel and NOTHING shows up. So I'm stuck and in need of some help A.S.A.P.

All help is appreciated greatly!

Really, you have never given us enough to go on.

Is this Windows Vista? We have had a recent report on Vista that playing while recording has better playback quality in Audacity 1.3.6, or if you stick with 1.2.6, that playing in Media Player while recording in Audacity will give better playback quality.

What do you mean by "off time", are the tracks drifting apart over time so that Time Shift Tool (F5) does not correct the problem?

What is the make and model of the interface? Does it have the latest drivers and firmware from the manufacturer's web site, specific to your particular version of Windows?

Can we assume you are recording at the correct sample rate specified by the manufacturer?

If it's a USB device, is it plugged into its own USB port, and are all other USB devices disconnected?

For making stereo tracks mono, see:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ur_Project


Gale

Hi Br3nt,I have the same problem with my Audacity, I play accoustic Guitar & I have a 4 channel stereo Mixer that i use channel 1 for the Drum machine channel 2 for the guitar & channel 4 for the voice,. I don't record 2 guitar when i play leas i only put in one track but it's recording 4 tracks in multi-track Tool mode, It works Perfectly, I didn't know How to use audacity at first but now since i joined this fourm i'm got alot of help & i thank your guys for the help.


write back,tommy