Hi, I want to know how i can record my voice with a song playing. Sorta like a karioke thing. Anyone know how to do it?
it depends on your soundcard, but usually you can set your audio settings to record from the system mixer, then when you record in sound forge it should pick up the song (lets say its on cd or on mp3 or somthing) and the voice (plugged into computer). if you cant do bothy with your sound card then you cant do both with sound forge. but you could always mix in a voice part that you do. heck, i always record trax separately and then assemble them in acid.
Im sorry, im sure your answer is right. Could you give me a little guidence though. How do i get into the system mixer, so that i can do this thing?
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sorry. right click on the little sound icon in your taskbar. select “open volume controls”
then options > properties then check the recording option, then check all the little boxes. then press ok. now the volume control you see is not play control but record controll. hopefully you will see soemthing like “system mixer”, if not, it may have a different name or something. but that will pretty much show you if you can record both simultaneously. how r u trying to record this? from a cd? a line in? what? and what kind of sound card you have. ?
i’ve got a VIA’ 97 sound card (one comp came with). I’ve got an option that says sterio mixer in the options. The music file is an mp3 file on my computer. I need to do the mixing in sound forge so i can warp the voice. Any ideas?
nevermind i figured it out, but it sounds bad. It’s probly better to use headphones to hear the song, record the stuff seperatly. Then merge them.
umm… this may sound stupid. But whenever i record sound with my mic while using headphones to hear the music, it somehow records the music, even though its too low to hear.
no stupid questions… i had that problem once too. just do what i said to get into the recording opetions in the volume control panel, and then click “microphone”. this will make it record only from the microphone. make sure that you have no other sources checked. cuz if you have “mixer” checked, it will record all sounds on the computer. 
this is weird, in the recording options i only have mic, and recording options checked off, and it still pics up the music even with speakers off, maybe there is a setting in soundforge that needs to be altered?
hrm. puzzling. i’ve found that sound is tricky tricky. like for example, i was transferring stuff from a minidisc to sound forge usign a regular analogue connection and it worked fine. then the next day ti didtn. then a week later it did. haha. lets see, if you have ONLY mic checked for your sound card,t hen sound forge should only pick up that. let me check SF to see if there are any settings i forgot about… bbin a bit
listen to your song on a discman cd player. when you start the song, put the headphones up to the mic, so you can later match up the sounds in the right time frame. then record on the mic, with the sound playing through your headphones. This allows you to record a clean accapella, seperate from the music.
This method is similiar to the process used in a recording studio…
BTW: what are you recording?
