Adding a Bass track

[hamer1]

Im just wondering....I have been working with multitracks to this point, but now I have an mp3 that I need to add a bass track to...i need to play it myself record it and add it to the mp3....what would you suggest is the simplest way to go about this , Is there some cheap or better yet free software I can use to interface with audacity that i can accomplish this

Thanx for any advice

[kozikowski]

You can do it in Audacity.

Import the track into Audacity 1.3. Audacity Preferences > Recording. Select 'Play a track while recording...', and de-select software playthrough and hardware playthrough if you have both. Restart Audacity.

Press Record and the system should play the original track and let you record a new track from your microphone and bass guitar or however you were planning on doing it.

This is assuming you already have the computer set up for straight recording and playback. This will not work if the last thing you did was record something from the internet. If that's the last thing you did, you must unwind those changes before you can do Overdubbing.

Koz

[hamer1]

Thank you so much for the response....Do you know of an app that i can use with audacity that will let me play a bass sound that i can record with audacity?

Thanx again

[polkat]

If you don't have a bass guitar, you can record the bass part with a regular acoustic guitar and a mic, then lower the resulting track 12 semi-tones with the Change Pitch in Effects. If you play smoothly and without much fret buzzing, you get a pretty good bass effect. Doesn't seem to work that well with electric guitars, and it won't sound as good as a real bass, but it works.