Audacity Question

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In Audacity,I am trying to lay down seperate tracks.Even when I select mono track,Audacity will pick up and transfer the 1st track to the 2nd track I am recording unless I pan the 1st track right and record the 2nd track panned all the way to the left.
Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks for any help in advance.:confused:
 
I haven't used Audacity for a while, but yes you are doing something wrong. Have you tried re-installing it?
 
Haven't tried that but I didn't mention I am using a Mackie 1202 VLZ mixer and running my instrument through it before it goes to the pc.
I have the input to the pc in one line input to the mixer and another line out from the pc into another line input of the mixer.
I do make sure the input to the mixer is turned all the way down on the line out for playback on the mixer.I do use the mixer to listen to my mix through headphones since I am jacking straight in to the mixer
 
So is Reaper better for doing this one track at a time?
 
Murdersgalore said:
You are using Audacity. :P
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I like Audacity. I have a handful of computers, and some have Audacity while others have Cubase LE. One computer had Ableton fpr maybe a week. The Cubase LE versions won't export a mix as an MP3, while Audacity will. Audacity has some nifty free plug ins, is pretty easy to use, and does a better than good job for a free program. I don't know; I try everything, and like everything. Maybe I shouldn't, but I do just because the different feel of a different program makes me do things differently. It's like having a Les Paul and a Strat; sometimes you feel in a humbucker mood, and sometimes you want that single coil tone. You play differently, get a few different ideas.......... ah, quit digressing.
The mixer into the PC scenario is what is screwing you up. I just don't believe you can plug straight into your sound card, unless you have an amazing sound card. You want an interface, and that will tell you how many separate mono tracks you can record at once. The sound card won't have say eight inputs and eight separate outputs. You need to set up the project by adding mono tracks and selecting the input to that track. The sound card likely can't do that, and has one stereo input/output. Well, as I say, unless you have an amazing sound card.
 
I have found that say the 3 tracks I have recorded on Audacity...I can pan to the right on the mono tracks on the screen and pan the mixer right as well...then I record my new mono track on the left channel and pan the mixer left...that way all my other tracks don't get rerecorded on the new track being recorded
 
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