Troubles with CoolEdit Pro

[Rincewind]

Hey and hello, everybody - I thought I might post here to hear if someone could be of any help with a small problem that me and a buddy have had with CoolEdit Pro (V. 1.2a, if that is of any use) while recording some various musical stuff. I figured there are plenty o' talented musicians here on the boards that might know something...

To the point: When you usually record on the multitrack, you can have the benefit of hearing your previously recorded tracks in the background while recording the new one - I.e: What you usually do while dubbing over vocals, another guitar, drums or whatever. Nothing odd there.Ã, 

Now, the trouble is that recently while recording, the program has gotten the annoying habit of recording not only the new one, but it also records the previous tracks again, which of course sound rather bad and crappy. In other words, if I just press the record button, and I don't play anything, (Assuming I've got a synth, mic or something on my line-in) it still records the sound of the other tracks on the new track, instead of just being silent.
Now I know it shouldn't do that, since it's worked fine before. I assume it's some setting in the program that's gone bad, but I'll be damned if I can find out what it is... Been trying for months now to fix it, but to no avail.
Muting the old tracks of course works, but then you obviously can't hear the stuff you're supposed to be dubbing over... (We tried doing a record with this method, but it was the most un-tight crap you'll ever hear...)

So, any ideas, just anything that could be of any help is appreciated...

Help me, AGS community, you're my only hope!

[LGM]

Did you check the settings? Preferences maybe?

[Rincewind]

Yep, that's what we've been doing most of all - Under "Settings" and then "Multitrack" there's a lot of options, so we figured it might be something there, but so far no result...

[prowler]

you should also check your volume settings: if you have something like "What U Hear" (i have a creative audigy 2 soundcard) selected in the recording section, you should change it to the source that you're using.

[Rincewind]

Ah, yeah, that's correct -Ã,  I do use "What U Hear" on my own computer, but on other occasions, while using "Line-In" or Microphone", the effect has still been the same...
But I think we'll try to fiddle around with the volume settings anyway... You never know...

[Pet Terry]

Make sure you set recording off of the previous tracks (you know, the red button with R in it) before start recording on new track.