Recording problem

[glenn]

Hello everyone. I set my preferences to "Play other tracks while recording a new one" and then I recorded a drum track. Next, when I try to record a guitar track I can hear the previous drum track (in my headphones) but cannot hear the guitar that I am trying to record in my headphones. The new guitar track still records but it is difficult to perform the new track accurately without hearing both the drum track and the guitar that I am trying to record at the same time in my headphones. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Glenn

[kozikowski]

In either the first or second page of Audacity Preferences, there should be two selections; Hardware Playthrough, and Software Playthrough. Pick the one that gives you the fewest weird problems.

You may need to restart Audacity for the changes to "stick."

You will no doubt figure out that even when you Perform in perfect time, the timeline doesn't work out like that. That's called latency delay and you can fix it in post production (slide the tracks around) or you can get rid of Audacity 1.2 and install 1.3 which has controls for this.

There are problems with Audacity 1.3.8, so you should probably start out with 1.3.7...

http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... -1.3.7.zip

Koz

[glenn]

Thanks for the tips. I will give them a try this evening.

Glenn

[kozikowski]

One more. You can install both Audacity 1.2 and 1.3 safely. They "know" about each other. Just don't try running them both at once.

Koz