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I want to record the mic on one channel and the guitar on the other at the same time. Whats the setup for this? thanks.

I've already searched FAQ's and tutorials far and wide with no luck

How are you wanting to record the guitar?
Do you have a mixing desk with "Pan" controls?
What sort of sound card do you have?
What sort of mic are you using for the vocals?

steve wrote:How are you wanting to record the guitar?


Do you have a mixing desk with "Pan" controls?
What sort of sound card do you have?
What sort of mic are you using for the vocals?

Thanks for the reply Steve,

Plug both mic and guitar into separate inputs on Boss BX-800 stereo mixer.

Stereo output of the mixer goes to stereo line in, on the on-board AC97 sound which is built in on MSI KT4V MS-6712 Mobo.

Boss mixer has 8 inputs with pan pot on each input, and Left and Right outputs.

Mic is a passive Electrovoice 630 with proper impedance matching.

When I tried to use only one input to record one track of the Audacity stereo tracks, the input track was normal level but the second track was severely over-modulated.

Pan the microphone all the way to the left.
Pan the guitar all the way to the right.
Record as a 2 channel stereo track.

After you have recorded:
Click on the name of the stereo track and from the drop down menu select "Split Stereo to Mono".

steve wrote:Pan the microphone all the way to the left.
Pan the guitar all the way to the right.
Record as a 2 channel stereo track.

After you have recorded:
Click on the name of the stereo track and from the drop down menu select "Split Stereo to Mono".

Everything is O.K. except there is no name for the track.Everything else I found O.K

Was I supposed to make a name before I started recording? or should I "save the project as" and give it a name then? And after saving it do the split to mono thing? Thanks again.


BTW just remembered, I should mention I am using Audacity 1.3.13 (beta)

The default track name is "Audio Track" (left end of the track)

steve wrote:The default track name is "Audio Track" (left end of the track)

Thanks many for the help Steve. I'll see if I can do it solo in the morning, too tired now and will probably goof it up. Thanks again. I let you know how it turns out.

flatpick wrote:

steve wrote:The default track name is "Audio Track" (left end of the track)

Thanks many for the help Steve. I'll see if I can do it solo in the morning, too tired now and will probably goof it up. Thanks again. I let you know how it turns out.

I seem to have it working correctly. Thats one giant step for me...Thanks!!

Next I need to learn to record a stock backing track, save it, and recall it from storage when needed, and then record another lead track, along side of it to make a stereo track. This is going to be interesting. I hope there are tutorials or youtube vids showing these type operations in Audacity. Thanks for your guidance Steve.!!