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When I multi track while listening to a first track of say, drums, the drums blend into the other tracks?

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Gravatar photo jtc

okay-using the ancient but reliable vegas 4.0 I've never had to deal with this before, I listened to "solo-ed" extra tracks from previous recordings and their is no sound bleeding from other tracks. I never had to add busses or anything, just press record. I use a simple setup-alesis usb mixer and a laptop. Why is this an issue now?

my man justin-here's the setup-

1. alesis usb mixer (small, 8 channels) 2. dell laptop w/ xp and running vegas 4.0    3. instrument cable or rca's from a boss dr-3 drum machine 4. then mics right into the mixer to get guitars or vocals.

I want to do a basic drum track then record over it and of course I need to hear the drums but I don't want them to bleed thru onto the extra tracks, it sounds bad, like there are several kits going at once.

As I stated above this has never been an issue before, I listened to other material I've done and there is not a problem, I'm confused and wondering what I'm doing or not doing for that matter.

thanks for your time and effort! 

  • Edit your question and add some more detail. I'm still not sure what's going on. Explain your signal chain a little bit and who you have everything connected.

    Justin Vencel | Feb 10 at 04:02

  • just did, check it out any ideas?

    jtc | Feb 10 at 05:02

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  1. Answered: 197 day 7 h (1) | Permalink

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    Gravatar photoJustin Vencel

    I think this is an issue with your built-in sound card on the laptop.  They typically don't work as well as a stand-alone audio interface would.

    I think you need to check the software that controls the sound card. It is probably currently set to something like "What you Hear" as the input source for sound card. In this case it would record any playback tracks plus your input source onto the new track.

    You need to go into the windows settings and set the recording source to use only the mic input or line in (depending what input you are using to record with). 

    Go into:  Start | All Programs | Accessories | Entertainment | Volume Control

    • this is the best resource out there. thank you very much for all of your help. all the best-jtc

      jtc | Feb 17 at 03:02

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