I know this is not what you are looking for, I am just offering an alternative view on how you could circumvent the dilemma in a productive way: when tracking I like to mixdown my whole backing track as a rough mix (maybe 1-2 alternative versions with one instrument that might get a singer irritated at first), then open a new song where I import the stereo file. then I record the new material, be it singer or instruments. this gives me a whole song that does nothing but the vocal tracking. No extra plugins, no audio instruments, no screen clutter in the arrange window and (in my pre-G5 days): a lot less CPU used for the backing music... to get the freshly recorded audio back into the main project, you need to bounce it to disk. If you are sure about the result, you could bounce it (i.e. all vocals) to a stereo track, or you could bounce all tracks as they are edited, eq'd and compressed individually. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- canine_at_waf80_dot_de good night europe. <your name here> http://kainiggemann.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------