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Posted on Mar 31, 2009

Cannot record both mic and electric guitar in daw

I have a Samson GTrack, and it came with Sonar LE. I want to record a vocal and electric guitar at the same time, but with the switch in the "Inst/Mic" position, the guitar won't record. The guitar is plugged into the input on the bottome of the mike.

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Disagree with previous post. The GTrack is designed to record vocals and a mono insrtument at the same time. That's its main selling point. It should also allow monitoring of both the vocals and guitar alongside the playback from the computer. In your computer's Control Panel, go to sound preferences, select the usb microphone and click on advanced tab. It is likely yours is set up to record 1 channel at CD quality - this is how many ship for some reason. Set it to 2 Channels CD quality.
In Sonar, set your track input as USB Left for the vocals, and USB Right for your guitar.

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    awesome. i've been trying to fix this problem all day and someone finally has an answer that works and is SO SIMPLE! thank you!!!

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That would be correct....you can't record vocals and instrument with the same hardware...in this case.....otherwise, their are options. This depends on what your tools are: guitar, computer, other outboard equipment........as well, you can overdub yer'brains out....one track at a time.......hope this furthers your quest.....

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