Recording on laptop with music + bass through headphones

[LennyPenny]

Hi,
I just installed Audacity earlier today and I'd like to know how I can record with headphones and hear the music (for covers) and my bass through it.

I use a Korg Pandora mini, so I've got a cable from bass to its input, cable from its output to the microphone input on my laptop and then headphones also in the Pandora (I don't have an amp).

Would another cable from the laptop's speaker out to the Pandora's auxi in solve my problem?

Thanks,
LP

EDIT: forgot to mention that I now use small mp3/pc speakers so I CAN play over other music but I'd prefer having both through my phones, hence my question.

[Killspringer]

it could work...

seems like there would be some latency (noticeable delay between playing and hearing back what you played), but you could try it out. i forget if audacity has a buffer size, but set it as low as you can, probably 128 samples if you can manage it. either way, in this setup the computer will have to process the audio before you can hear it back, meaning there will be some timing difference between what you play and what you hear.

[LennyPenny]

I tried to record over a song (Hospital Beds by Cold War Kids) but there was some latency. Tried Kristal instead but that doesn't support mp3 files so I couldn't import any songs.

I looked it up on youtube and found a video with detailed explanations on how to adjust the latency but apparently my version of Audacity doesn't have such an option.

[Killspringer]

There are a lot of good inexpensive USB or FireWire audio interfaces with software and/or knobs that route the signal you are recording straight to the speakers/phones. Look up presonus or maudio stuff, that's a good low budget easy-to-use place to start. Without something like this or a hardware mixer you're always going to be fighting latency. Also if you take a di from your amp and mute the bass track im audacity you can just listen to your amp

[LennyPenny]

The Presonus 1box does look interesting but I'm really not willing to spend that kind of money, just to record to covers, partly because I'm saving up for an amp. I can always figure out the bpm on the original, find a metronome/drum machine beat that matches it and then record it like that.
Still, thanks for the suggestions.

[sonic assassin]

first off, you'd want a line level input so you dont get a lot of distortion.

if you are running your fill-in amp into your DAW set to record, then your output should be giving you every signal mixed at your master bus. use your headphones/speakers THERE. a rough DAW without the proper I/O will have latency issues. not a lot you can do.

a USB or better a firewire interface will do you better. worthy investment.