music bleeding on to a seperate track

[phantasm777]

i changed pcs for my drums and i know the solution must be a bit easy, but i have not found it yet.
when i am laying a track down, using a track as my guide, the guide track bleeds into my new track in the background. i do not recall this ever happening before. i am using audacity, and even when i mute or delete the guide track. it has obviously been recording into and along with the new track, and i sure do not need that.
i am not sure if it is a audacity problem or a mixer problem. the mixer was fine before i changed pc.s, so it must be audaicty. i've checked the settings best i could and no change. i sure do not need a phantom in the back of my drum tracks.

[64Guitars]

The bleed-through is probably coming from your sound card.

Your operating system should include a mixer app for controlling input and output sound sources. For example, in Windows XP it looks like this:



Try muting the inputs that you're not using so that sound can only enter Audacity from the input you're actually recording from.

[phantasm777]

win 7 no longer uses that kind of vol. control panel. but for the one they do have, all uneeded things are muted or even disabled, so it cannot be that.

[na_th_an]

Could it be that the sound coming from your headphones goes into the mic when recording a new track? That happens to me all the time (alas  I don't care as I'm a really dirty engineer )

[phantasm777]

no, my headphone, while playing drums are 3 or 4 feet away from any of my drum mics. it is either the mixer or the laptop. i've used both before without this problem, there is something i am missing.

[na_th_an]

Maybe you are recording the stereo mix and not the card's input? Open the recording devices and make sure all but the one you want are muted and/or disabled.

[phantasm777]

will dbl check on that. great possibility that could be it.

[Daniel Storey]

Could it be that the sound coming from your headphones goes into the mic when recording a new track? That happens to me all the time (alas  I don't care as I'm a really dirty engineer )

I am from the school of dirty engineers... mute that high -hat and there';s no difference kinda thing

[na_th_an]

Yeah, that's the way I like it