Recording Multitrack files in audacity
Prateek Dayal 
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Lets discuss how to record multitrack files in audacity
Lets assume that you have a backing track (mp3 file).
- Open the backing track in audacity.
- Now when you press the record button, what you record (using your mic) will be recorded in a new track (you can see it below the backing track in audacity)
- While you are recoding, the backing track will keep playing in the background. You can either listen to it using a headphone (don’t use PC or laptop speakers as this will interfere in recording). Or you can even mute this track in audacity (there is a mute button).
- If you record again, your recoding will go on a new track (3rd track). Again, you should either mute the first two track (backing track + 1st recording) or listen on a headphone.
I am not sure about how to save individual tracks but you can save the entire audacity project and email it to someone and they can then work on it
Hope this helps. If you know more about this stuff, please reply to this post
Posted on March 02, 2008
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Prateek Dayal said
You can go to the taskbar (thats usually on the bottom right), click on the speaker button (for volume) and mute your speakers … that is one way to shut off the speakers.
Other way is to plug in a headphone in the speaker jack. You can try either of this. If you want to be listening to the backtrack while playing, headphone is a better idea
Sanjeeb Sircar said
I’d like to be listning the backtrack on headphones while playing but the builtin speakers of my laptop just dont shut off when I insert the headphones jack into the headphones socket of the laptop.
Prateek Dayal said
oh … so the problem is that the sound comes out in the headphones as well as the laptop speakers
In this case you should double click on the speaker icon (volume) and most likely you will find different settings for headphones and speaker … you will have to mute one of these …. try experimenting with that
I am sorry but if this does not work, some windows expert would have to help you out with this … do let me know the final result
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Sanjeeb Sircar said
Thanks Prateek for writing this.
I am able to do upto step 3, but the problem I am facing is that when I insert my headphone jack into the headphone socket my laptop inbuilt speakers don’t shut off.
Sanjeeb.
(I have downloaded the track of UWstand
A problem I am facing now with my laptop is when I play the track on my headphones and try to record my sitar with a mic simultaneously, the inbuilt speakers of the laptop don’t shut off.
Then I have to also learn how to save both the tracks and mail it in a way that the sitar track can be separately worked on and then joined as a final mix.)