audacity, audigy2, & a an annoying buzz

[Wi1d]

My Objective:

• record multiple tracks and w/ guitar/vocals. I've been using my 4 track tascam for ages and decided it was time to modernize and save the money spent cassettes.

Current Hardware, Equipment, & Software

• Audigy2 platinum (the one w/ the internal drive)
• 4 track Tascam ministudio porta02
• Audacity 1.2.1
• 2.6.8-nitro6, alsa. oss emulation, & emu10k1
• My faithful Ibanez

Current Setup

• I've got my tascam's line-out plugged into line-in on the back of the audigy card (not in the internal drive, mic2, because I've never got that to work on linux)
• The Ibanez is plugged into tascam input
• Record w/ audacity

The problem: when I record the first track with audacity everthing works great but the second track has a horrible buzz. (Example clip)

I've played with several different levels w/ line on alsa, gain on audacity, and the levels on my tascam to no avail. I still get the buzz w/ the second track. Anyone got any ideas? I chose to use the tascam as an intermediary piece of equipment because I can listen and rip from past tapes and audio books. Maybe I can fix it by plugging my Ibanez directly into my audigy soundcard. I haven't tried this yet cause I'll have to make another trip to radio shack or fix the mic2 problem. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

[gregolak]

A bit too late but may be useful for
someone else : the bad sound has gone
after setting Prefs>Audio I/O>Recording Channels to
"2 (stereo)"

[uglyman]

ahh thanks! that did the trick!! saved me a post.... err... well I guess I blew it. anyway setting it to stereo fixed everything