sonar input and output problems

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why is it that when i record track 2, and i play it back, i can hear everything from track 1 on it too. for example, track 1 is guitar and vocals. on track 2, i play a guitar solo. then i mute track 1 and playback, but on track 2 i can hear guitar, vocals and lead guitar. why can't i just hear the lead guitar???i'm plugging the guitar directly into a creative audigy 2 soundblaster. i tried using headphones but it made no difference. obviously, i need to listen to track 1 while i record track 2, but how can i do it without getting all the stuff from track 1 onto track 2 too???
please don't use very technical talk because then i won't have any idea what you're saying!:)
 
Go into the windows mixer (or the Audigy's mixer applet) and select Line In (only) as your recording source. It sounds like you currently have What U Hear or Stereo Mix or something other than Line In selected.
 
That was so easy to fix!!! i can't believe i haven't recorded for months because of such a little problem. but ofcourse, it's not over. now that i fixed that, i seem to have another problem...there's a delay now between the time that i play a note and the time when sonar receives it. this makes it impossible to do a solo over a guitar track because it completely throws off my timing- ineed to hear the note as soon as i play it! i've got the "latency" set in a safe zone, because if i set it to be faster, then the sound keeps "dropping out". ???help!
 
As you have surmised, this is latency. If you can't get your latency setting any lower (which is probably the case with an Audigy), you'll need to turn off Input Monitoring in Sonar.

Of course, this will present a different problem, in that you won't hear the input for whatever you are currently recording. Some sound cards (I'm not sure about the Audigy) allow for direct monitoring. That is, the input can be routed directly to the output and not through the computer. If the Audigy allows for this, it would be one way around the problem (although you won't be able to hear any software FX's you are applying to the signal).

Of course, for a DI guitar, you can also just listen to the guitar while monitoring the playback over speakers. However, this won't work with vocals (or anything else that is mic'ed) for obvious reasons.

There are other ways as well, but involve additional equipment such as a mixer.
 
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