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Originally Posted by 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.
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Each instrument is recorded into the same project but on a different track. So for instance you could have:
Track 1: Click track (or Drums)
Track 2: Guitar
Track 3: Keyboards
Track 4: Vocals
Track 5: Background Vocals
Etc....
You can choose which tracks you hear while recording by muting tracks. So for example if you only want to hear the click track and guitar while recording vocals, you can simply press mute on the keyboard track while recording your vocals.
As you record your new tracks they are automatically recorded in sync with the previous tracks.
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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.
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Check your soundcard settings in your mixer window. (I think you've said you read my tutorial on this, but just in case
here it is again.
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What you are describing happens if you have "record what you hear", or "stereo mixer" (or something like this, depending on your brand of soundcard) selected for recording. This will record
ALL sounds going through your computer instead of just the mic (or line) input.
-tkr