Advice please before I fucking smash my recording deck

Methadrenal

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Feb 1, 2009
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I am trying to write a song to a CD and this piece of shit machine tells me 'No stereo track.' I looked at the manual and it says this means there is no song with a master track longer than 4 seconds.

How the fuck is that? This song is about 2min long...what do I do about it?
 
this is the reason why i am terrified of home recording. im not sure who here can answer your question. maybe matt...
~gR~