no signal when recording original music

[earlybird]

Sir Steve-
May a thousand camels grace your caravan! I get sound now. Only one problem.....I put one guitar track down. When I try to put another on and play it back after recording, the two tracks are not in sync. The first track is about 1/2 second earlier than the first. Is there some kinda sync button somewhere I have missed?

Ahhh...Reel to reel

[kozikowski]

Audacity 1.3 has those. Not 1.2. You can have both versions on your machine as long as you actually use only one at a time.

You are listening to the latency of your computer. That's what one round trip through your computer sounds like. Every time the computer has to stop and think a second, you lose on Sports Call®.

The patch job involves selecting and sliding your new performance back into sync and then record yet another, slide, etc.

Or go use 1.3.

Koz

[steve]

The first track is about 1/2 second earlier than the first.

Apart from that sentence not making sense, 1/2 second sounds like more than a latency problem. My suspician is that you have switched on "software playthrough" in Audacity's preferences (Audio I/O tab). "Software playthrough" should not be selected.