Problem with "spilling" tracks on Acid 4.0

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ok whenever i record, say, a 2nd track of a song and its singing so i have to have the 1st track playing also so i can keep rythm. But whenever I finish the 2nd track, it also has the 1st track recorded in it also. So most of the time I have to turn the rythm down to where i can barely hear it to get my voice to be over the 1st tracks guitar.

I dont know if this is normal or not, but I dont like. Of course i use headphones and it doesnt matter if i turn up or down the volume on the headphones, just the tracks volume. Can anybody help me prevent this?

thank you
 
Yup ...... Easy

Launch the mixer for your soundcard (double click the little speaker by the clock) ... click Options then Properties ... now select Record and click OK.
Make sure that Line In is selected as the recording Input ... Not "stereo mix" or "what you hear" or whatever your soundcard calls it's device for the summing of all inputs. Use only "Line In".
Or use Mic In if you must (if you don't have a preamp/mixer), but most all standard soundcards have nothing but junk in terms of their Mic In preamps.

-Ken
 
thnx for the reply

ok i dont think im doing this right (sorry if this is easy and im just being stupid). I go to that speaker icon on the bottom right, click options then properties. Click the recording thing instead of the playback button and mine has MIDI Synth, Line-in2/Mic2, and microphone check marked. I only checked the line-in2/mic2 but it didnt work. I dont think im doing it right.
 
When you go to optionsproperties and then click the record thing ...... Place a check mark at all of the items that it shows in the list.
Now click OK .... Now what you should be looking at is the Recording controls.
Under each items fader, there will be a check box .... this is where you select which device you are using for recording. Whichever one you check is where you will plug in to. Just about all soundcards have the ability to do internal mixing of all the available recording sources and offer that sub-mix as a recording device (Soundblaster's call this "What you hear" others call this "Stereo Mix" or something of that nature). Most likely, that is what is selected on your soundcard. Hence the reason you are getting the rhythm track dubbed into your vocal track.
When you first double clicked the speaker .... you where looking at the Playback controls, which had similar check boxes but those are to mute the output of that device. You can mute 1 or all.
Back to the Recording controls .... you can only select to record form one device (with standard soundcards anyway).
By the way .... What soundcard do you have? And ... What jack are you plugging your Mic or whatever in to?
If you are using the Mic In jack .... you should select Mic In in the Recording controls.
If you are using a Line In jack .... you select that Line In in the Recording controls.

Hope this helps
 
haha got, it was in the line-in2/mic 2. thnx man your a genious
 
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