Recording through a Computer.

[Swappo]

Hello, friends,

I apologize if this is covered somewhere else on the site. I am a newbie and I am a bit ignorant on all of this.

I'm trying to record myself singing. I have karaoke tracks saved on my computer and I have a microphone. I'm using Windows XP Home Edition and recording through Total Recorder.

I click the speaker icon on the toolbar and bring up the volume control, hit "Options," hit "Properties" and then choose "Recording." I choose "Microphone" and "Wave Out Mix" and the sliders for both of those come up. It doesn't allow me to select both at the same time. If I choose "Microphone" only my voice records and if I choose "Wave" only the karaoke track records.

I posed this problem to one of the kids at Best Buy and he said that it's not possible to record both at once and that I should burn my tracks to a disc, play them from a stereo, choose "Microphone" on the Recording Control and both my voice and the background should record that way.

I find it hard to believe that it's not possible to accomplish this task.

What do you guys think I should do?

Sorry this was such a long post.

 

[garbagelarge]

im not familiar with your program, but generally you can import a cd track into a program and it will play back as you record with your microphone. see if there is a way to import a wav file or a cd track into your program - goodluck, ben

 

[solo.guitar]

This is where you need a multi-track recorder.

Something that will let you playback a track and record over it while it is playing.

Download Audacity and install it.

Open it up, import the backing track (karaoke track) into track #1.

Set "Microphone" as your recording device, and hit the "record" button on Track 2.

It should play the backing track while recording your vocals.

 

[Swappo]

Thanks for the replies.

I did what you suggested, solo and have it working now. This has been frustrating me to no end as computers often do. Thank you very much.

Things are looking up.