HELP!! Record Microphone SEPARATELY AND SIMULTANEOUSLY

[JQuinn]

Can someone help?
I am trying to use my existing setup (just a basic soundcard) to record the microphone input at the same time BUT on a separate track as music playing from a program.

I use Fruity Loops to make a loop and either play it from that program or even record it and save it as a .mp3 file as the instrumental.

I then want to play the instrumental and record it to track 1 while recording my voice via the microphone onto a seperate track so that I can go back and adjust volumes, add effects to the voice track separately without effect the music track then when done fintuning combine the two.

I have Adobe Audition and it has multitrack recording, however I can't seem to figure out how to set it so that it records ONLY the mic on one track and ONLY the music on another. It seems that with all the setup options for the tracks it ultimately just records "what you hear" meaning combining the music and the mic onto both track not allowing me to edit the mic result independtly of the instrumental.

Some people have said something along the lines of setting the music all the way to the left channel and the mic all the way to the right channel and do it that way somehow but I didn't really understand how this was done.

Does anyone know how to do this without purchasing a mixer ect.?????

 

[cpl_crud]

It seems that your soundcard isn't really capable of doing multitracking, however if you use a setereo soundcard, don't think of it as Left/Right, think of it a Track 1/Track 2. (Please note- this is only for recording stuff- obviouly you still need think left/right for mixing etc).

There seems to be a lot of threads recently dealing with the "what you hear" problem. Is there some new, cheap card out there that is suddently doing this?

I'd advise you to get the latest drivers/software for your card- a lot of cars have thrid-party software taht contols the recording source, so cahnging things in the standard windows volume control panel won't actually effect what's going on.

Serisouly, you should look into getting an ASIO/VST compliant card. I know I rip on th eAudigy series, however an Audigy 2 will allow you to have a number of different mix busses, and they're cheap as chips. Or you can go the Audiophile route.

If you're serious about your recording, and getting really frustrated, spedning that extra $50-$100 is going to make your life so much easier.
We're not asking you to go out and buy the top-of-the-line RME cards that cost $500 per channel etc, just go get something that suits you budget and your needs. If you're only using one Mic, then a Tascam... thingy (it's late and I can't remember the part number) or a mobile pre will not only increase your "headroom" (in the technical sense) but you will no longer have to worry aobut "waht U Hear"
Same goes for the cheap PCI cards as well.

I know the angst that can be caused by not having gear, but when I hear (in another thread) about people with NT1-As, Grace 101s and some shitty input card, it really greives me.
If you've got no way of getting audio onto your recodring media, then you're not a recording engineer. You're a live engineer at best.

When budgeting gear for yourself, look at the whole chain, from mic to CD. If you can only afford $1000 now, that's fine. Jsut don't go and blow 95% of that on one mic and a single preamp, then try and use the remaining $50 on trying to get that awesome signal into your media, edit it and brun it.

Sorry about the rant, I'm tired and just kinda pissed off that people read this forum, receive good to great advice, but then think that if they buy a great pre then all their woes will be solved...

 

[cpl_crud]

OH, and after going off on my tangent and re-reading your question, if you take a mono track from fruity loops and put it as track 1 in audition, then record your vox into track 2, that should work so long as you don't have "waht you hear" enabled.

Shat soundcard are you using BTW?

 

[whjr15]

why would you wanna "record" the drum loop in the first place??

why not just make a loop in Fruity loops, then fill in the playlist, then export it... then import it into your recording program.

i guess im missing something.. because i dont see why you would want to playback the loop, while recording the sound that comes out of your speakers.. and then using the "recorded" one as your instrumental track.... sounds pretty counter-productive if you ask me.

just forget about the whole "recording the instrumental" deal, and just do the export & import.