Audacity Tracks Out of Synch

[joeboy]

Hi there, I am trying to achieve the simple goal of overdubbing guitar parts and vocals over an acoustic guitar rythm using audacity. I am using an Advent 9515 laptop, plugging my guitar stereo lead directly into the unit's mic port and listening back via the headphone socket.

When I play the track back, the overdubed parts are completely out of synch with the initial rythm track. I have ensured that the recording starts from the very beginning, point 0. I have also tried setting the project rate to different settings but it makes no difference. Can someone please tell me how to overcome this problem.

Regards,
Joe.

[joeboy]

Could it be the case that the playback speed differs from the recording speed and how do I overcome this?

[joeboy]

Can anyone offer advice ?

[jmad008]

I had a similar problem last night. While attempting to record a 4th track of a song (bass), the track would slowly, but surely, drag farther and farther behind the original 3 tracks, to a point within the first 30 seconds of the song it was a whole beat behind. If I adjusted it on the front end, it would still end up dragging behind. Would love to hear what someone has to say about your question, might help mine as well.

J