[carol m]

Have I got this right? You record one drum or click track. Then you record a guitar track (under the click track) while listening to the click track and save it with Save Project As. Then you start a new Audacity window, use the same click track and record another guitar (or vocal) track by listening to the same click track and recording over it (under it actually). Then you save that as Save Project As with a different name or a,b,c,etc).

Then you repeat this process for as many tracks as you want and add effects etc to each track separately until you are happy with each track.

How do you then get all of your separately 'saved' tracks into one Audacity 'window' so you can highlight them and do a Quick Mix (or whatever you have with your Audacity version)? I have changed my Audacity settings so I hear the first recorded track (or tracks) while I record the next one (quite a breakthrough when I found out how to do that). It automatically 'mixes' or 'adds' each track every-time you go back to the beginning and press Play (or Record) because they are all in the same window (or Project). That obviously doesn't allow you to add effects to individual tracks so it's not a good option.

After you 'mix' all your tracks together, do you then listen carefully, decide if any tracks need to be 'brought up' or 'back' or changed in some way, go back to the separately saved individual track,do the changes and then mix them all again until you are happy with the finished song?