My experience with the mics built into laptops is that they're *extremely* sensitive. The distance between your head and the laptop mic is probably easily close enough for the laptop to pick up the sound from the earpiece.
On April 21, 2023 1:10:41 PM HST, Brandon Hale <bthaleproductions@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey David,
This may be a silly suggestion, but did your headphones bleed into the microphone during your second and third recording? The mic might be picking up what was playing back to you in your headphones. Solo on of your recordings just to make sure and see if the guide track is still there.
If that's not the case, check the routings tab in Qtractor and see if something is routed in a weird way. However, I'm guessing you just recorded headphone bleed.
I hope this helps!,
Brandon Hale
On 4/21/23 16:53, David Sumbler wrote:Several years ago I managed to produce some multi-track midi files using qTractor.
Now I want to do something fairly simple using audio tracks. Just to get myself back into using qTractor after a very long break, and to find out how to do what I want, I decided to try something very simple to start with. I want to record a guide track using my voice, and then record 3 other voice tracks (separately), listening to the guide track through an earpiece. Then I shall delete the guide track and experiment with altering the pan settings on two of the other 3 tracks to see if I can get a good stereo effect. I'm using an HP laptop and its internal microphone, with an earpiece plugged into the computer's headphone socket; no sound comes from the computer's speakers, of course.
Recording the guide track is no problem. To record the second track, I set it up as an unmonitored audio track and set the guide track to solo. I then record the new track whilst listening to the guide track through the earpiece.
But after recording the second track, even if I delete the guide track, I can still faintly hear what was on the guide track - in other words, the new track has recorded the contents of the guide track at the same time as the new input from the microphone. I have tried this several times, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong - probably because I'm a musician and not a sound engineer.
If anyone has the patience to try to steer me though this, I shall be extremely grateful.
David
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