audacity recording

[tomjazz]

Hi all i am going to get back to it and have a go at recording and having fun iv got audicity but can anyone give me some tips on it for eg i recorded a backing track but on play back its very quiet iv tried playing around but cant get the volume right.? 2nd my idea was to record the backing track save it. Then press play&record and play over the top of it and save woul this work?? Thank you Tom.

 

[suethesax]

Tom

Have a look at the tutorials:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/toots/audacity/

They will help you find your way around the programme

Good luck and keep playin'

 

[Linky Lee]

if it's too quiet you can use the gain function to increase volume, but your best bet is to 'normalize' the audio file.

To record a second track in the same project create a new track, remove record enable on the first one so you don't record over it and use headphones so that you don't record the backing track twice.