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instead of something general like "stereo mix," "what you hear" or "digital wave." For example, if your recording

source is a microphone, choose "microphone." If you're recording from your computer's Line In input, choose that.

To choose your recording source in Mixcraft, click on the small down arrow that appears to the right of the arm

button on the track you want to use for recording. First, choose the sound device you want to use (you may only

have one choice), and you'll see a sub menu with a Stereo Source option.

gain, if you're already have a specific source selected, your microphone could be picking up the sound from your

speakers. Try turning off your speakers and using headphones to monitor the audio!

How Can I Hear Effects During Recording?

Some sound cards or USB devices have a way to monitor the live recording independent of Mixcraft. However, if

you'd like to hear the effects during recording, you'll need to disable the sound device's monitoring and use

Mixcraft's monitoring system. For example, if you are making a weird recording of your voice and would like to

hear the echo or delay while recording, you'll need to turn on monitoring. You'll need to enable Mixcraft's

monitoring and disable any sound card's built in monitoring.

To turn on Mixcraft's monitoring, click the Monitor Incoming Audio option on the armed track. Note that you may be

fighting latency versus non-gapping audio by enabling monitoring.

To turn off the sound card's built in monitoring, you may need to go into the Window's audio mixer and go the

playback section and click the advanced button (if it's there) to disable it.

My CD/DVD Recorder Is Not Supported!

Mixcraft supports two burning engines: Goldenhawk and IMAPI. If you are using Windows XP or Windows Vista,

you can use the built in IMAPI burning engine. The draw back to IMAPI is that it burns two second gaps between

tracks on the burned CD.

Goldenhawk is preferred because it is faster, will burn on the fly and burns without gaps between tracks on the

burned CD. Unfortunately, Goldenhawk does not support as many CD and DVD writers. However, there is some

hope.

Since many drives are clones and use the same basic technology, they also share the command system that

instructs the CD and DVD writers what to do. With that in mind, you can try different drive definitions to see if they

work with your drive.

Go into the CD Burning Preferences, make sure that Goldenhawk is selected and then click the Goldenhawk Drive

Override... button. This brings up some options for your unsupported devices. Choose the unsupported drive from

the drop down Select A Drive. First try the Use A Generic CD Writer Drive and then click OK. Restart the software

to see if its supported by trying a test burn. If that doesn't work, go back into the Goldenhawk Override dialog and

try Use The Driver For This Drive Type option. Select a drive that sounds similar to your drive. Consult the web to

find out what type of drive it could be cloned from. Try a drive with the same manufacturer but at a slower speed,

etc. Note that it is not guaranteed to work, but this is an option to try.

Otherwise, switch to IMAPI mode if you are using XP or Vista.

I Am Getting Burn Failures

Here are some suggestions to troubleshoot a burn failure.

z Try a burn in 'Test Mode' first.

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