Tracks keep jumping out of sync...Can't align...

[Thunderbolt1000T]

I'm trying to make an acapela vocal recording. When I record the first vocal track, everything is fine. However, when I record the second track and play it back, it's about 0.125 seconds out of sync with the first track. I've tried the align tracks function...Nothing. Either I'm doing it wrong, or it simply doesn't work. I can't move forward in my recording until I know how to fix this annoying problem...Help!

[phantasm777]

from what little info you give, try going to your sound program(s), not audacity. check that NO effects are on it like surround or anything else, take them all off, see if it helps, it seems to take some of the delay off of mine, and while its not perfect its a lot closer in sync than it was.

[Gale Andrews]

The "Align" commands won't be useful because the new track will have started late by an arbitrary amount depending on the sound card and the computer then Audacity will have shifted it backwards by 130 milliseconds to try to compensate.

Either use Time Shift Tool (press F5 on your keyboard) to click and drag the new track to the correct position, or adjust the Latency correction setting in Audacity's Recording Preferences. If your new track is always 0.125s too far to right after recording, enter -255 as the latency correction (that is. the 130 milliseconds that is already being applied plus the 125 milliseconds that it is still adrift after that).



Gale