Recording and dubbing on the Yamaha AW2400

[rainydog]

I plan to blow my sax with a karaoke type musical accompaniment I have in my iTunes Library. I plan to play the background music on my computer and put the AW2400 mic between the computer's external speakers. I plan to record this on Track One. Then on Track Two I plan to play the melody etc with my sax on Track Two. Then I plan to pan the two tracks a bit. Sometimes Track one and track two get paired and I don't know how they get paired. Sometimes tracks two and three get paired and I can't unpair them using the monitor window. When I try to pan the two tracks I don't detect any pairing. They always sound the same. Would there be any problem when I record the karaoke background with the mic set between the computer's two external speakers? I probably won't finish the project tonight so I assume I can save the stuff that I record on track one.
Bill

[iqi616]

Does the handbook include a getting started section? If there is, I'd recommend trying that out to get used to operating the unit and to ease the familiarization process.

[rainydog]

For two days I have been trying to record and mix. I laid a track with my saxophone and I 2nd track with my guitar. When I was recording with my guitar I could hear the sax playing through my ear phones but I could not hear my guitar through my ear phones and it was next to the mic. I could hear the guitar when nothing was playing, when I set the volume but just as soon as I pushed play so the sax track would play and I could practice listening to the sax track I could not hear my guitar through the ear phones. When I pushed record I could hear the sax playing but I could not hear my guitar so it was like a guessing game. I'm playing an accompaniment and I can't hear it until it is all finished. There must be a button that I could push so I can hear the guitar being played along with the sax. I tried every thing in the book and am still trying.

I have recorded before I before I could hear both instruments through the ear phones. I can hear my sax when I'm laying the first track. When I try to lay the second track it does record but I can't hear my guitar while I am laying the accompaniment track

BIll

[Speeddemon]

Check the bussing/mix screen, whether all outputs are enabled.

Also, the thing that bugged me about the AW2400 (and a minor reason to sell it, along with bigger other reasons) was that you can't hear active inputs over the same track, when in Play mode. Korg (and I believe Akai too) recorders do feature this Auto Input mode.