Recording problems

[Tangled Wires]

Hi all,

I am currently recording some lead guitar parts on a song, but a strange thing is happening. When I start recording, the previously recorded rythym guitar does not play back, despite the fact that it is set on the correct track. When I finish the recording and play it back the rythm guitar plays fine, and only seems not to play when I am recording another track.

Any help would be much appreciated

[Ferryman_1957]

That's a weird one. You are doing nothing after you have recorded the lead to any of the settings? Tracks usually don't play back because they are not selected or the volume is set low if they are selected. Can't think what else it could be because there is no "mute" function or anything like that on the MBR.

Cheers,

Nigel

[hewhoiscalledj]

Definitely strange. My first guess was that you may have recorded the rhythym part on TR1V1 (track 1, virtual 1) and the lead on TR2V2 and couldnt hear the 1st track because it was set on TRV2? This theory doesnt actually fly because you wouldnt hear it together on playback unless you selected the correct pair of virtual tracks. But perhaps something similar happened. Remember that the MicroBR can only play up to 4 of the 32 virtual tracks available so upon recording or playback, you have to manually select which of the virtual tracks you want to hear or record with (assuming you are using the virtual tracks that is... ) If you are only using the 4 main tracks (v1) then I'm not sure what the problem could be other than you had the rhythym track level down to zero to mute it while recording the other part (which would be weird.)

If you can give a few more details, I'm sure we can figure out. We've all been there and I'm sure we'll be there again down the road.

[Glenn Mitchell]

I'm with Ferryman, check to see that channel's volume is up.

[64Guitars]

The most common reason for not being able to hear a previously-recorded track while you're recording another track is that you're attempting to record on another v-track of the same track. Only one v-track can be selected at a time on each of the four tracks. So, for example, if you record some rhythm guitar on Tr1v1, then switch to Tr1v2 to record some lead guitar, you won't hear the rhythm guitar while you're recording because only v-track 2 is selected and the rhythm guitar is on v-track 1. What you need to do instead is record your rhythm guitar on Tr1v1 and your lead guitar on Tr2v1. Since these are two separate tracks rather than merely two v-tracks of the same track, you will hear both tracks while recording and on playback.

The only other possibilities that come to mind are that the playback level is too low on the first track or the wrong v-track is selected.