Multitrack Recording

garebear · 06-26-2006, 01:16 PM

Everytime I go to record track 2 in Cool Edit Pro 2 - it records track one in the background - How do I do real Multitrack recording?

~~Wozer~~ · 06-27-2006, 09:54 PM

never used that program before so I can't give any exact device, but perhaps a 'lesson' in how analog multitracking will help you on your road to figure out how to only monitor track 1....

on a tape recorder, you record track 1...then when you want to record track 2, you have to use monitor busses to hear both the first track and the new track at the same time...the monitor channel has its own volume settings for each track, separate from the recording busses, which enables you to set the main mixer volumes to zero for the first track (thereby allowing no signal to be included in track 2) but at the same time have the monitor busses volume set to an appropriate level for that track to nicely mix in with the track being recorded...

what you need to do is to read your manual closely and figure out what you have to do to multi track record with your program not have track 1 included into the recording of track 2...

06-26-2006, 01:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
garebear Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Multitrack Recording Everytime I go to record track 2 in Cool Edit Pro 2 - it records track one in the background - How do I do real Multitrack recording?

06-27-2006, 09:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
~~Wozer~~ Troubled Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,038 OS: 2kpro/XP pro/MCE	never used that program before so I can't give any exact device, but perhaps a 'lesson' in how analog multitracking will help you on your road to figure out how to only monitor track 1.... on a tape recorder, you record track 1...then when you want to record track 2, you have to use monitor busses to hear both the first track and the new track at the same time...the monitor channel has its own volume settings for each track, separate from the recording busses, which enables you to set the main mixer volumes to zero for the first track (thereby allowing no signal to be included in track 2) but at the same time have the monitor busses volume set to an appropriate level for that track to nicely mix in with the track being recorded... what you need to do is to read your manual closely and figure out what you have to do to multi track record with your program not have track 1 included into the recording of track 2...