Now I want to do something fairly simple using audio tracks. Just to get myself back into using qTractor after a very long break, and to find out how to do what I want, I decided to try something very simple to start with. I want to record a guide track using my voice, and then record 3 other voice tracks (separately), listening to the guide track through an earpiece. Then I shall delete the guide track and experiment with altering the pan settings on two of the other 3 tracks to see if I can get a good stereo effect. I'm using an HP laptop and its internal microphone, with an earpiece plugged into the computer's headphone socket; no sound comes from the computer's speakers, of course.

Recording the guide track is no problem. To record the second track, I set it up as an unmonitored audio track and set the guide track to solo. I then record the new track whilst listening to the guide track through the earpiece.

But after recording the second track, even if I delete the guide track, I can still faintly hear what was on the guide track - in other words, the new track has recorded the contents of the guide track at the same time as the new input from the microphone. I have tried this several times, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong - probably because I'm a musician and not a sound engineer.