Audacity Forum

hi. i'm new to this, so it's probably just me being thick. through lack of having anyone else to play guitar with, i thought i'd give playing along to myself a go, and audacity seems like a nice simple thing to do it with. i just want to use it like an old 4-track recorder (but with countless more tracks). i have a line-out on my guitar amp, which i have plugged into the line-in on my pc and all is working lovely. i can lay down my first track without any problems, and play it back. but when i come to lay down a second track, it all falls apart. i only seem to have two options - i can record the second track without monitoring the first one, which kinda defeats the object as i can't hear what i'm playing along to, or, i can turn the over-dub on and listen to the first track while recording the second, only rather than just recoding the signal from the line-in, it's recoding everything i.e. the first track again too. if i lay down a click track first, the same thing happens - when i come to record a track over the click, it also records the click. very annoying. is it me doing something wrong, or it it my pc not being sophisticated enough to differentiate between the line-in and 'everything else'? many thanks.

<<<but when i come to lay down a second track, it all falls apart.>>>

That's normal so far.

<<<it's recoding everything>>>

That's because your computer is not recording your performance or microphone. It's recording "Mix-Out" or "What U Hear." In English that setting records everything your computer is doing at this instant -- either direction. This is the setting you need to record Internet Audio like YouTube.

Reset in Windows Control Panels and restart Audacity.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Koz

sorted! many thanks.