Talk:Recording multi-track overdubs with specialist hardware

Overdubbing using your computer's on-board sound card
You may also try overdubbing using your computer's on-board sound card. Note that standard sound cards supplied with the computer often are not very good, the main problem being that the microphone input can be noisy. You may not be able to hear yourself during the recording.
 * Using your on-board sound card
 * Overdubbing using your computer's on-board sound card

This tutorial is designed to help if your equipment does not have hardware playthrough and software playthrough is not an option.

On Windows or Linux, you can try unmuting your input in the playback side of the system mixer. This will give you low latency hardware playthrough of what you are recording. Older Windows XP systems quite often have this feature.

On all operating systems, you can try in Audacity instead, but this will always mean you hear yourself late and could cause audio breakup.