Hi brian: Well, I've always questioned the philosophy of having the default mode set to sound on sound rather than overwrite wich is the way analog recorders have always worked. I always have changed my startup template to overwrite mode. This way you can always punch on the fly if you have your computer keyboard or control surface close enough to your music workstation. I only use auto punch when recording stuff where I need both hands, like guitar or sax. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Howerton To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 7:29 AM Subject: [ddots-l] punch recording in sonar Hello folks, I definitely know how to do this of course, but I am kind of curious to see what methods people like to accomplish the task of let's say punching in a vocalist. I know the cake talking tutorial recommends going in to overwrite punch mode, and I believe the default mode in sonar is sound on sound, someone correct me if I am wrong there, and then they say after you do the punch you can go back to sound on sound mode, but I was just curious to see what people on the list normally do to accomplish punching affectively. thanks, Brian