Sound/Recording problem.

[Nod]

I use my computer to record tracks and what not. Lately though I'm having a problem. When I try to record (I use Cool Edit Pro) with an instrumental in the track it sounds HEAVILY distorted and I can hear the intsrumental in the recorded track. It has the same distortion when I record without the instrumental there but not nearly as badly. I think the problem is that my playback settings are so that I can hear what's going into the microphone through my headphones but I'm not entirely sure. I know that it's not Cool Edit because it does the same thing in Audacity and Windows Sound Recorder as well. I can't for the life of me remember where the setting is in XP to change it and all attempts at changing other sound settings have had no effect. Can anyone help?

[rbcp]

Maybe your instrumental track is set at a completely different bitrate than your other tracks.  I don't know if that would actually cause distortion, but its all I can think of.

[Nod]

It does the same thing with any instrumental track and even without any. I know the problem is a setting somewhere but I can't figure out what it is or how it even got changed in the first place.

[Zazen]

On my little home jukebox I have a setting that pumps wave output back into the recorder so that the geiss screensaver can react to the music. I guess you could check that if you haven't already.

It's Control Panel -> Sound -> Audio tab -> Sound Recording Volume button -> "select" checkmarks decide what is recorded

[Nod]

On my little home jukebox I have a setting that pumps wave output back into the recorder so that the geiss screensaver can react to the music. I guess you could check that if you haven't already.

It's Control Panel -> Sound -> Audio tab -> Sound Recording Volume button -> "select" checkmarks decide what is recorded

OMG! THANKS ZAZEN! I couldn't for the life of me figure that one out. Now I only have my laziness as an excuse not to record!