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playing over a recording

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:55 pm
by debdar39
Can anybody help? I am using audacity to record Guitar and I have just imported some backing tracks into audacity. I want to play these tracks and record my Guitar over them. I want to hear my guitar playing and the backing track at the same time? It only seems to let me do one or the other??

Re: playing over a recording

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:17 pm
by steve
"Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O"
Select "play other tracks while recording new one"
Do not select "software playthrough"

External sound cards do not always support this option.