Audacity Weird Recording Issue. Please Help!!

[Iamthemusicman]

Hi! I have been using audacity now for about 6 months with no problems. I use it to record vocals over background music or beats. I use a condensor mic connected to a tascam interface connected to my windows pc. It has been working fine but the recordings were clipping so I turned down the input level to a minimum.

Next I pressed record and tested it on lowest mic input level, which was obviously too quiet I was just testing. But now if I turn the input up anything over 0 the headphones don't play the background beat while I record. I have overdub option selected and when input is lowest I hear the beat fine but my recording is almost silent, and when I turn the input level up it stops letting me hear the beat?!?!

I'm very confused as to why it would start doing this, especially since it has never done this before. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

[kozikowski]

Running both the recording and playback sides of a PC at the same time can be an adventure.

They've gotten away from this, but Windows Sound Control Panels used to have separate record and play sides and you could select similar services in each one. For example, you could select the microphone on the playback side and the microphone would not be available for recording, even though you could hear it.

Assuming nothing else is going wrong, it sound like you just need to turn the right sliders up at the right time.

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

Koz