I can set a whole tracks colors, no problem.  I select the whole track and use the clip color change and for instance make the background yellow and the audio information (foreground) blue.
BUT when I record another clip on that track it reverts to other colors for that recording.
How do I get the new recording on that track to automatically stay with the color scheme of all the other clips on that track? (Usually some dark background with a light foreground - and I want the opposite on these newly recorded clips.)
 
I love X3c but I would like to find out what I am doing wrong here.

THANKS for any help on this.

Not sure (preferences maybe, somebody else will shout).
However just want to say you really must try installing X3D that was released today.

On a related, but unrelated note, I'm wondering what some other folks are doing with colors on tracks.
 
Here's what I'm leaning toward at the moment.  I'm setting all my audio and instrument tracks to have their color follow their bus color.  For MIDI tracks (I don't use simple tracks), I am leaving them without color.  And track folders I'm leaving without color.  If I collapse all my folders everything looks tidy as one gray color.  But when I look at the Console view, everything looks tidy in terms of the colors of tracks mapping to their bus.  I'm also not coloring MIDI tracks to reduce the clicks that I would otherwise do to match them to their associated instrument track.
 
Wondering what others are doing.  Are you coloring your track folders and your MIDI tracks.  If so, why?

lawajava
On a related, but unrelated note, I'm wondering what some other folks are doing with colors on tracks.
 
Here's what I'm leaning toward at the moment.  I'm setting all my audio and instrument tracks to have their color follow their bus color.  For MIDI tracks (I don't use simple tracks), I am leaving them without color.  And track folders I'm leaving without color.  If I collapse all my folders everything looks tidy as one gray color.  But when I look at the Console view, everything looks tidy in terms of the colors of tracks mapping to their bus.  I'm also not coloring MIDI tracks to reduce the clicks that I would otherwise do to match them to their associated instrument track.
 
Wondering what others are doing.  Are you coloring your track folders and your MIDI tracks.  If so, why?

I'm doing it exactly the same way. Basically, I try not to fiddle with midi-levels, unless I'm producing a midi as output. I only click 'Midi' in the strips menu when I want to double check something (maybe I'm paranoid), but following that, I just unclick it.  So, I rarely have need for Midi strips in the console view and thus, no need to color them.

To me, the console is primarily for audio mixing.
 

I think what you want is under Prefs>Customizations>Colors,  then Track Defaults button and select the Follow Bus option.
I think that does what you're asking if I understood you correctly.

Thanks I will try that.  By the way, I installed X3D and it is awesome.
And here is the strange thing - it did seem to be clearer than X3c in a dense mix.

Well, if I understand the original post correctly, X2's Track Inspector had a "Background" drop-down menu that allowed us to choose a default track background color (i.e. clip background color) for the selected track. Unfortunately, with the new track color customization method in X3, this option was removed. So, even if you change the background color of existing clips by lasso selecting them and choosing a desired color in the Clip Inspector, all clips you record after that will still show up with the default clip background color, which is black.
 
I should have sent in a feature request to get the option back, but I've been too busy to do it...

Jlien - that is exactly my issue.  I guess it is not something that I am doing wrong.  I am trying to make it so even though when I change all my tracks and clips to a light colored background, the next time I record on any of those tracks, it defaults to a black background.

Yep, to be honest, I think it's unlikely that they'll bring back that option. Also, may I know why you want to give all clips in the track the same background color? Is the clip foreground color (track strip color) or the clip text name not enough for you to identify what track it is? How about use track folders and put the same type of instruments into that folder? In my case, I only use clip background colors to identify which clip is linked to which clip, so this change in X3 didn't really affect my workflow.

For MIDI tracks (I don't use simple tracks), I am leaving them without color

 
Not much point in colouring Midi tracks IMHO, they all live in 1 folder in Track View, are hidden in Console View, and you can't get them to Follow Buss Colour because, there ain't no buss!!!