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I will look into that as another option.
Thanks for taking the time to suggest this....

Hey, Steve....

Just wanted to thank you again for your advice regarding splitting the stereo track into two mono's so the audio playback will show up in both ears. Works great, so thanks very much.
One other question: When I open a second track and try to record on that, no audio comes from the first track at all, no matter what I try. Obviously, it is impossible to record a new track(s) playing along with a previous one(s) which you cannot hear.

Incidentally, this morning I made up my mind to read the entire Audacity tutorial, to learn as much as possible (including the above) so not to pester you with every issue, but that box comes up which demands the selection of other search engines (msn or Bing) before allowing you to proceed (and no way I'm doing that).

OK, Steve....relative to my question of earlier today, I figured out why audio tracks won't play while trying to record additional ones. "Transport / Overdub".
Got it....sorry....

It occurred to me that the "msn / Bing" phishing box which blocks me from the tutorial on my PC might not be there if I tried viewing it on my laptop. It didn't.

Thanks again for being so prompt and helpful during the past few days......

Doug in FL

OneBadApple wrote:I made up my mind to read the entire Audacity tutorial, to learn as much as possible (including the above) so not to pester you with every issue, but that box comes up which demands the selection of other search engines (msn or Bing) before allowing you to proceed (and no way I'm doing that).

That is nothing to do with Audacity. If you are using Internet Explorer on that machine, try Firefox or Chrome.


Gale

Just (I'm pretty sure) one more question, then I'll (probably) leave all of you alone.....

As I'd mentioned, with your help I was able to record and split the percussion for a song on one track (thanks again). Last night I tried adding bass guitar on the second track, but while playing both of them back, Track 1 (percussion) plays fine, while the added bass on Track 2 plays back completely out of rhythm and sync with Track 1. Not even close.

Your tutorial suggests going into the Windows Control Panel to check this and that and the other thing regarding Default Formats and matching recording and playback rates (which I will explore), but I'm not holding too much hope, since the Track 1 percussion plays fine, both by itself and when played along with the new (goofy) Track 2.

Any thoughts or suggestions you may have will be appreciated.

Thanks....

OneBadApple wrote:I was able to record and split the percussion for a song on one track (thanks again). Last night I tried adding bass guitar on the second track, but while playing both of them back, Track 1 (percussion) plays fine, while the added bass on Track 2 plays back completely out of rhythm and sync with Track 1. Not even close.

See the top two paragraphs of Why is my new track out of sync with the previous ones, or sounds crackly or at wrong pitch?.

In other words, time shift the second track to the correct place, or better, do the Latency Test to set the required correction automatically.

If you have more questions, I recommend starting a new topic.


Gale