Why can't I monitor my live track when overdubbing?

[austin72]

Hi all- Newbie here.

For some reason I have never been able to figure out how to actually hear the track I am recording...and I have been using CEP for several years on several machines! Crazy, eh? So I have worked around it (often sliding my headphones to the side to hear my guitar over the other tracks).

I am sure it is a simple solution, but I am stumped. Any help is greatly appreciated.

TIA,

A72

[superspit]

I've always used a mixing desk..(from 4 to 24/48 channel)....so I've never had an issue with monitoring, or latency for that matter..
Do you have a desk, or using software monitoring?..What sort of cards are you using and how many are you using?
It just maybe a simple case of learning to use the 'routing' and 'playback' functions within CEP...maybe another soundcard could be used as your monitor outputs????...there are a few ways around this issue...but yours does sound very difficult!!
I'm sure someone here will give you a solution,..I'm off to work now!!....let us know how you go.

[Nico2112]

I asked the same question a few months ago
Check out this thread:

http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=221666

It helped me out a lot, and it fixed the problem.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

[zenbrowncoat]

I always had this problem whenever I had to reformat a hard drive and re-install everything, including cool edit pro 1.2. I still use it. What I had to do was go into the "options" menu on top, and click on "windows mixer". Look at those settings to make sure all options are un-muted. For some reason, some of these will start out muted in cep. Good luck.

[Cody Suit]

for me all i did was turn down my wave/mp3 in windows mixer and turn my line in all the way up then crank my stereo amp then i can hear live sound through my speakers

[Powerbastard]

Originally Posted by Cody Suit

for me all i did was turn down my wave/mp3 in windows mixer and turn my line in all the way up then crank my stereo amp then i can hear live sound through my speakers

I tried turning my line-in up (in windows audio), but it made my recorded guitar huge and muddy and un-usable. If i turn my line-in down to about 1/4 of the way up, my recordings sound great...even though i can barely hear the guitar as i'm recording. Then when i go to record a second track, the first track is loud enough to hear but again...i can't hear what i'm recording.


my hillbilly solution was to turn track 1 (which would be drums, in my case) down to about -11 db, turn my speakers way up, and i can actually hear what i'm playing while recording. Then when i record a second guitar (track 3) i turn track 2 way down where the drums are at and repeat. When i'm done, i set all the tracks back to zero and start mixing.


of course, i also have to trim off the first .055 of every recorded track due to latency issues, but that's for another thread at another time.

[sguitarf]

I had this same problem, and it took 6 months and an "accident" to fix it. I dont know if this will make sense, but on the monitor, if you turn down the playback track, you can hear the track thats being recorded much better.
Hope this helps