hello friend
i have question about recording,i am new with music magic.the issue is i am trying to record my instrument and voice....on one track.but the recorder is recording all tract also.mean if i pick on track one drums and now hit recording on track two for my external bass..it is recording base but always recording drums again on tract...i tried with metronome it is also recording metronome on with track...any help will be appreciated thanks
Hi,
If you are recording your instruments and voice using a microphone that is in the same room as your computer and your drum track is playing back in the background, of course the microphone will pick up the drum track. You need to monitor using head phones that disable the speaker on your computer. If you do this and use the following process, all should work well.
George
ps. I am not sure why you would want guitar and vocals on the same track because you will really have no ability to mix the two on one track. I would record guitar first probably bass second and then vocals each on their own track.
gandjcarr - I believe jack123 is having a great deal of difficulty expressing himself in English. My take on what he's saying is that he has a very common problem.
I believe he means he had recorded a rhythm track, and when he tries to record vocals on another track, with the rhythm track playing, the vocal track is recording the vocals AND the rhythm track.
I believe this has to do with some soundcard setting ("what you hear"?), but I don't recall exactly.
@ Procyon,
If Jack uses headphones to monitor his recording with a microphone plugged in to his PC, if he uses the technique to record the vocals that I suggested, he should have no problems at all. If he is trying to use his PC microphone, then yes it will mix in the other tracks unless they are muted.
George
Hi
. . . . If he is trying to use his PC microphone, then yes it will mix in the other tracks unless they are muted. . . . .
How does the jack123 hear what he has recorded so he can sing along to it and record?
I agree with Procyon when he says . . . . I believe this has to do with some soundcard setting ("what you hear"?), but I don't recall exactly. . . . . this is a problem with certain soundcards where what is played and recorded are remixed within the sound card so that the track being recorded also has what is played back mixed in again inside the sound chips
For sound chips such as the Realtek HDA there should not be a problem as the recording devices and playback devices are effectively two seperate devices connected via the stereo mixer. As shown in this simplistic diagram.
So long as recording from, for example the microphone input, is used there should be no mixing with the playback channel.
However if you record from the Stereo Mixer then you will get recording and playback mixed.
From what the OP has said so far it would appear that the sound chip is mixing the playback and recording - this is also backed up by the comment that it also records the metronome - or the recording input is set to the Stereo Mixer when it should be set to the Microphone input.
John