Uhm..... what is a "ghost track"?

Jay O'Neill, post: 432100, member: 49421 wrote: Hey everyone. I don't know if anyone else has run into this problem but it seems like I've been getting an awful lot of ghost tracks when I'm working on a song... It happens at least once in the last 5 songs I recorded and it is driving me up the wall bc I spent so much time into these songs. I tried deleting the file from the Explorer window but that still doesn't help.. I've tried recording over it but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Jay

You need to tell us what recording software you use and what you consider a ghost track.
In a engineer language a ghost track is a temporary track that will be deleted when along the realisation of a project.
We can record a band live and consider those tracks 'ghost tracks' then record each instrument seperatly while deleting the 'ghosts' one by one.
(ex: I delete the bass ghost and record the definitive bass track and move to another instrument to do the same)

I we regard this strickly from the computer aspect. You need to know where your audio files are created on your hard drive when you record. When you want to delete a file, that file needs not to be in use. So it's imperative that you close your recording project and then go to the folder and delete files.
At that moment, you're ghost files may not even exist anymore if they are temporary files created by the recording software.
Ghost files may also be what represent the visual wave drawing of the audio. Many software save the audio file and that drawing separately.

Make us a print screen if you have trouble to put words on it ;)

Jay O'Neill, post: 432106, member: 49421 wrote: Whats been happening is from time to time the original bad track will still be heard even though it's been deleted and nothing is showing in the workspace.

I'm with pcrecord. Process of elimination . (y)

Interesting.Your issue sounds really bazaar and it could be that a track is still there, but hidden.

Not that this is related but I have a related ghost "effect" story.
When studying a shootout of a bunch on track provided by someone.... I've heard ghost effects in one of the Pro Tools sessions where a reverb aux didn't turn off on a left side. Even though the verb effect was inactive, it still remained present in the session (very subtle) .

Sometimes rebooting a session or rebuilding it as a new session will solve problems you can not explain.

Hmmm.... well you learn something new everyday... 30+ years in the biz and I'd never heard that term before.

Ok I have a better Idea. Make sure you remove all the Record flag on all the tracks except the on you are recording on.. I'm guessing that you are recording the same signal on multiple tracks and when you delete one, there is still others present...