I answered my own question about deleting the events in the track cloning process. Figured out that events were *everything that took place. Should have known that anyway. I tried it and *big surprise, I had an empty track. For anyone who's a novis like me and cares to know how I fixed the problem, I will explain. The problem was that I got a little too heavy handed with the volume control on Darrell's lead guitar. There was a squeal that particularly jumped out and bit you. It sounded great but was too loud. Plus there were some wavering things going on because the volume kept going up and down. Oops. So I cloned the track and turned off the auto read and auto write functions. Then I used the auto mute on the first lead guitar track and set the volume to a suitable level on the second. So what I got was a more balanced lead. You are probably asking why I didn't just delete the first track. Well there was a solo that had to be totally cranked up. It required auto read and write being on. So when the solo came on I unmuted that first loead guitar track that still had auto read and right on. Then I just recorded over the end of the second track. This allowed me to delete some annoying feedback junk at the end without having to turn auto read and write on. Now that I think about it I suppose I could have just learned how to delete measures. So now what I have is a lead guitar track that isn't jumping out and biting people but has enough attitued to make people think Zack Wild. I have never done this much work with guitar before. But it's easy. We just put instrument mikes in front of the amps. In this instance, Darrell and I work very well as a team. I know it's not cool to need sighted help, but he sets levels, as I have trouble hearing them until the track has been recorded, unless they are really badly clipping. For some reason when they are just bad enough to show, you can't really hear the distortion at all., while you're recording. Only after playback. So rather than fight with it, I just set them aproximately where I think they need to be and then Darrell does fine tuning. It's kind of cool. He doesn't know really how to use sonar and I have issues with setting levels so we work together and produce some neat stuff. By the way, just for the curious, this song only had ten tracks. Two rhythm guitars, two leads, a couple lead vocals and a bass and drums oh and a background vocal. Guess you don't need much to do rock-a-billy, although that project will soon get bigger as we're planning to do a weird intro, with some blue grass instruments we have lying around and all of us singing bringing in the sheaves.
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