Topic: Pseudo multitrack advice

[NineEyes]

I play in a 3-piece band where we record our (live) sessions.  At times we send a song from these sessions (i.e., .wav or .mp3) home with a member, or to friends to add another “track.”   This additional track is later synchronized by ear to the baseline song in a DAW.  It is this synchronization which is difficult to get right, especially when the clocks of each recorder are not identical.

Can anyone suggest an inexpensive piece of equipment or procedure for making the synchronization step a no brainer?  Everybody who makes tracks for us has a Windows PC.

[NineEyes]

We are using an inexpesive (US$60) solution which I'd call "proven."  First, we put a click track at the beginning of the baseline audio.  The person adding a track, does it with their PC and one of these:

http://www.behringer.com/802/index.cfm?lang=eng

While recording, the click track is fed onto the new track with a momentary press of the "CD/TAPE TO MIX" button.  When the new track is turned in (in .wav format), it's easy to synchronize to the baseline regardless of the DAW software.

Feedback is avoided, I believe, because Behringer inverts this signal path.  We also found that in the duration of a 5 minute song, clock differences are not an issue so we only need to sync up the beginning.