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I imported an mp3 file of music to track 1.

I recorded vocals on track 2 with a microphone.

When playing back and listening to track 2 by itself, (with the mp3 music from track 1 muted); there is the presence of the mp3 music from track 1 mixed in with the vocals on track 2.

When recording, what do I have to do to create separation between tracks?

(The sound card is a Santa Cruz by Turtle Beach which is a full duplex card.)

Thanks.

Comments

anonymous Sun, 12/05/2004 - 03:29

Two things come to mind, both fairly basic:

- Are you monitoring through your speakers when recording? If you are - get yourself a pair of headphones and the bleeding will go away. (Most of it, at least.)

- If you already use headphones it's probably a routing setting in your soundcard software. Is audio out being routed back to audio in? Cheaper soundcards sometimes do these things.

anonymous Sun, 12/05/2004 - 10:16

- If you already use headphones it's probably a routing setting in your soundcard software. Is audio out being routed back to audio in? Cheaper soundcards sometimes do these things.

I am using cupped headphones- its not from that...

I muted/umuted all of the items in the control panel of the sound card software (line in, aux, microphone, etc.) and tried differrent combinations...

Is there a way I can not "route the audio back to audio in"?

P.S. I am using a Behringer mixer:
..Line-out on card to L/R tape-ins on mixer
..L/R main outs on mixer to line-in on card

anonymous Mon, 12/06/2004 - 16:16

Yes, thanks, that was part of the problem...

Here are the settings so that there won't be any bleed when recording:

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Mixer:
Tape To Ctrl Room button = DOWN position
Tape to Mix button = UP position

Santa Cruz Control Panel:
"MAIN" tab: select Line in (not "Stereo Mix")
"Mixer" tab: mute microphone (all others ok)

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Thanks for your help.

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