Jun 14, 2009 09:32 am You have to have the solo track assigned to listen to a specific input.
Audacity Playback
Posted on Jun 14, 2009 04:51 am
GarrettSkater99
Member Since: Jun 14, 2009
ive used audacity before but dont remember if ive had this problem in the past... when i record a solo with the backing track being played, the track ive newley recorded has both the song and the solo on it... how do you get the guitar to come through separately so i can adjust volumes?
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Jun 14, 2009 09:32 am You have to have the solo track assigned to listen to a specific input.
Jun 14, 2009 06:23 pm Also, if your using your built in sound card make sure to go into windows sound control panel and uncheck the what you hear button. That will cause the built in to record what is being played back as well as what is coming in the line input.
Aug 29, 2009 10:54 pm whats the what you hear button? like i wanna be able to hear the first track so i can solo over it but not have it be recorded... im still not undertsanding. I have an onboard sound thingy and i cant figure it out. is it best to be recording line in or mic in?and the input selector on my audacity toolbar isnt showing up...
sorry dont mean to sound like im nagging but this is frustrating
Aug 30, 2009 07:05 pm Like I stated above. Go into the Windows sound control panel and bring up the options, recording tab. Then un check the what you hear button in there. And then you will be all good to go.
To be honest, an on board sound card is not going to be very good fro recording, and it may not show up in Audacity as it is a default unit and it won't give you any option's in Audacity. Mic in will give a little boost, Line in is for things like CD player or mp3 player or the like.
Aug 30, 2009 08:40 pm wow thank you so much... sorry if i wasent understanding the first time.
now last thing, i think it might be the on board sound card. When I record a second track while the first track is playing (not being recorded) the sound gets really choppy and almost becomes hard to play with. however when i hear both the tracks back together (after ive recorded), they both sound fine. what's causing this?
Again thank you so much
Aug 30, 2009 10:20 pm That is called latency. And with the stock built in sound card it is nearly un avoidable. You can try to go into the buffer settings in audactiy which should be in the options drop down menu but I can't say for sure. It could be called preferences. But there will be a tab to select the audio, which from what you posted earlier you may not be able to see it, but its worth a look.
Then adjust the setting up, it is probably at 128 and you could try moving it up to say 256. That might help. But in all honesty you are fighting a driver set that uses MME drivers which are an extremely generic driver set that encompasses many generic type sound cards. So getting it to work really well with that is not going to be easy.
What you are trying to do requires a card that can run in Full Duplex mode, which means it was built to record and playback audio at the same time. Although these built in cards can do it, they were never designed to do it. They were meant to run half duplex which means they can do one or the other pretty well, just not both at the same time. That's why it sounds OK after when your only playing it back.
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