I'm not the type to give up that easily, this is new to me, another steppping -stone in the learning process.(God that sounded ghey...)
Here's whats getting me ..well here ya go for example: I did a little study on the tracks and noticed something . The "first one" I did after downloading Audacity, and having Canuck-Todd explain to me how I can "listen" to the backing track and "record "at the same time..( yeah, I'm a moron)was Kirks am blues that he posted.
I followed Todds instruction, which was basically just top click a drop down on the "edit" go to preferences and check-off "playing tracks while recording new one". I did that, closed it. Had the mic on the floor, about 4 feet in front of amp on a clean channel...just a touch of reverb, and played. Now I played it back, it sounded like what I was "hearing" while I was playing. It was clear, tone was where I wanted it etc..cool, this is fun!! (with me?) So now I experiment, play with the levels,bass boost, auto EQ...yadda yadda. Sounds like crap on playback now.Close Audacity, re-open it. Put the mic exactly where I had it, amp set to same settings, grab "Ruby" plug her in and recorded over the original backing track Kirk had posted. (Remeber now, everthing was the same as I used on the first attempt.) Played it back, and asked myself "what the heck happened here? that sounded like crap." and it's been down-hill from there.
So here's what I'm gonna do first, I'm gonna REMOVE Audacity from my computer, go back to the site and re- DOWNLOAD it. This way I should be back to the default settings. I got a feeling I screwed somthing up playing around with it.....so let's start fresh... I'll keep ya posted Ben...thanks for the help man.
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