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I'm trying to figure out how to use this program to record  songs and vocal tracks but it won't play the track and record the vocal at the same time...I even tried recording the vocal while listening to the track on win media but when I try to allign the 2 tracks-the timing never quite matches. ( I came to the conclusion that perhaps win media and audacity play the same song at slightly different tempos so what sounds great at the intro is way off by the end of the song.) BTW I imported the track from win media into audacity- so it should be identical.

I'm running a good sennheiser mic thru the basic little behringer UB502 mixer(the smallest one they make) and from the mixer into my sound card on the computer. I have an fx component that I could use to add the verb onto my voice before the computer but I was trying to record dry then add the effects with the audacity program.

Anyone out there know anything about this program? It has dynamite sound if I could get the 2 tracks to work together. I'd greatly appreciate anyone who could shed some light on this...especially if you have the same program and have gotten successful results ....and  you don't have it set up the same way I do.


Please help??

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honey I dont have it but this might help ...

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials

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Well I don't use it like that.  I guess you can, but I don't know how.  I use it a different way.  I just started messing with it til I got the results I wanted.  I am clueless to how it is spose to work. I am sure that I will adjust my method when I figure out how to use the program correctly.

I record my vocal tracks "dry" with my Tascam.

Then I will import the vocal track into Audacity and use several of the filters.   Bass boost first, Reverb second,  amplify third, EQ forth and  compress it last.
Then I will import the vocal track back into my Tascam and mix it down and master it.

After that, I will bring the stereo WAV file back into Audacity and run bass first(if needed), then amplify it to where the sine wave is at the right DB.  Then run an EQ(again if needed) filter on it based on the style of the song....there are several to choose from.
Then run compression again...the end result will usually end up with enough gain....

I have no Idea whether or not this is the best way, or even necessary, or even the correct way to do things... but I like the end result it gives and it is real fast and you can practically do it without listening to the WAV file at all.

The tricky part is to get the Verb right...hard to adjust a bunch of numbers instead of tweaking the sound....

What I am after is a sound that will sound good when you listen to it with the default settings on Media player and have enough gain to play in your car stereo...

So all these steps you can see where it is easy to miss one and why I sub songs with no verb ect rofl....but I can have a Mastered WAV in about 30 min after recording a good vocal track.  And that is great for me cause my time is very short...(as long as I get the reverb amount right)

Gosh do I wish I had some hardware where my ear could do all the work...

I don't guess it matters how you get from point A to point B, it is the end result that matters...a million ways to do something...

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It has worked for me in the past...I would just imported the song as an mp3, hit the play button and then immediatly hit the record button (right next to the play button) then when you are done and the song is finished hit stop to stop play and recording You can now export to mp3 and then reopen in Audacity for editing.

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