Hi Folks,

I hope you have the patience to bear with me here.

Although I've been recording off and on for quite a few years, I
really still consider myself a novice in this department.

I'd appreciate getting some help with some basics.

My sound card driver software brings up two controls, one for
recording and one for playback.

Right now I was trying to play back a track and no sound could be
heard. I went into the RECORDING control and brought up the Wave level
from 0 to about 2 or 3 and then started to hear the track.
My first question: why would changing the Recording level influence
playback of an already recorded track?

I'm also experiencing bleeding between one track and another.
I'm playing back track one and recording to track two. When I play
back track two I hear a fair bit of track one in it. I'm recording my
guitar direct from its amp into my mixer Mackie 1202 (old version).

I've tried playing back track one through the speakers and just
headphones but I still get bleeding.

A couple of weeks ago I did something different because I have one
track where there is no bleeding. All the others now have bleeding.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Eric

"Eric" wrote in message


My sound card driver software brings up two controls, one
for recording and one for playback.

That would be the standard windows sound mixer?

Right now I was trying to play back a track and no sound
could be heard. I went into the RECORDING control and
brought up the Wave level from 0 to about 2 or 3 and then
started to hear the track.

Sounds like the output of the recording mixer was being fed into the
playback mixer.

There should be an "input" in the playback mixer that controls this.

My first question: why would changing the Recording level
influence playback of an already recorded track?

See above.

I'm also experiencing bleeding between one track and
another.

This could be due to the playback mixer feeding into the recording mixer. On
some audio interfaces there is an recording input called "What You Hear"
that regulates this.

I'm playing back track one and recording to track two.
When I play back track two I hear a fair bit of track one
in it. I'm recording my guitar direct from its amp into
my mixer Mackie 1202 (old version).

See above.


I've tried playing back track one through the speakers
and just headphones but I still get bleeding.

See above. Feeding what you are recording into the playback side of a mixer
is sometimes called "input monitoring" or some such.

A couple of weeks ago I did something different because I
have one track where there is no bleeding. All the others
now have bleeding.

The usual standard is for your mixer settings to persist. If you boot the
machine, they come up just like you left them when you shut the machine
down.


Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

RTFM.

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:49:50 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

You're a good man Arny!

My sound card driver software brings up two controls, one
for recording and one for playback.

That would be the standard windows sound mixer?

Yup, Win 98 mixer.


Right now I was trying to play back a track and no sound
could be heard. I went into the RECORDING control and
brought up the Wave level from 0 to about 2 or 3 and then
started to hear the track.

Sounds like the output of the recording mixer was being fed into the
playback mixer.

There should be an "input" in the playback mixer that controls this.

I don't know if you're familiar with the 'old' Mackie 1202 mixer but
its design pre-dates computer recording and discrete busses.

I asked Mackie not too long ago how to set up my gear with the 1202
and they gave me a 'best case' scenario, (not nearly as good as the
new Mackie 1202z)

So what I have is my line out from my guitar amp going into Channel 1
of mixer.

Aux send of mixer going to sound card input.
Sound card out going to Channel 11/12 of mixer.

Mixer Main outs to monitor.


I'm also experiencing bleeding between one track and
another.

This could be due to the playback mixer feeding into the recording mixer. On
some audio interfaces there is an recording input called "What You Hear"
that regulates this.

Are you talking about a software mixer here?
I don't have anything like this with my software.


I've tried playing back track one through the speakers
and just headphones but I still get bleeding.

See above. Feeding what you are recording into the playback side of a mixer
is sometimes called "input monitoring" or some such.

Right, I think my mixer is a natural play/record loop. Don't know how
to set it up properly.


A couple of weeks ago I did something different because I
have one track where there is no bleeding. All the others
now have bleeding.

The usual standard is for your mixer settings to persist. If you boot the
machine, they come up just like you left them when you shut the machine
down.

Yes that makes sense.
I made two changes in the past week or so.
Someone suggested the noise I was getting in my recordings was due to
a cheap sound card (which I am using). Cheap but decent sound quality.
So I tried for the umpteenth time to get my AMIII card working again
with a .wav driver.
Couldn't do it once again.

In trying the above change I loaded/unloaded the AMIII wav drivers.
and I also went back to my cheap sound card and changed the input from
line in to mic in. I figured maybe mic in might give me a cleaner
sound. Who knows?

My AMIII output went in Channel 9/10 and the Tape out went into the
AMIII input.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

RTFM.

Would that be Rolling on The Floor Masticating?

Seriously. The Mackie manual is useless for my computer recording
situation. That's why I contacted Mackie.
My sound card didn't come with a manual and my recording software
yields negative in this department too.

Eric