click bleed

[aramism]

ok i know i am not crazy but a click track (metornome) will bleed into a guitar right? i am recording guitars and have a direct box (countryman) that i am recording to to reamp later and when editing guitars if i listen to the dry signal with gain and stuff i hear the click as well as the drums sometimes. if the monitors are loud enough then it is my assumption that guitar pickups will pick up the click and whatever else is coming out. am i correct in that assumption?


it's not a big deal for distortion and stuff but if i ever record clean parts or like clean arpeggios or something i must remind myself to give the guitarist headphones or turn the click down in the monitors.

 

[PostMortem1666]

yeah. i noticed that about 2 weeks ago so on my last project i had the guitarist use headphones and it was fixed. when my band was recording we used my guitar with emgs and we didnt have a way for the guitarist to talk back to us from the other room so he talked through the pickups lol.

 

[Emdprodukt]

had the same problem. solved with headphones.

 

[Habsburgs]

we didnt have a way for the guitarist to talk back to us from the other room so he talked through the pickups lol.

Hahahaha!

 

[Where She Wept]

the Vic Firth isolation headphones rule and they're cheap

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Vic-Firth-SIH1-Isolation-Headphones?sku=443954

 

[JeffTD]

I track waaaaay tighter when I've got headphones on, so I wear them for tracking anyways.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I track waaaaay tighter when I've got headphones on, so I wear them for tracking anyways.

I agree, I don't know how some of ya'll do it without cans.

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

With one of my old bands, we recorded live in the room, and the guitar stopped early - we had the drums coming through the pickups and out of the amp for about three minutes and it sounded so cool and creepy we added it as an outro. Cymbals sound like church bells when they play through a cab

Steve

 

[ryanojohn]

Its especially bad on guitars with chrome pickup covers... or hell any pickup covers for that matter...

 

[aramism]

yea it just so happens the loudest guitar was a les paul with the chrome pup tops.

a telecaster with SD hot rails was also equally loud. weird.

 

[Metaltastic]

Man, I remember the hot rails being one of the noisiest, harshest pickups I've ever played - so all the more reason for bleed, I suppose

 

[HeadCrusher]

we had the drums coming through the pickups and out of the amp for about three minutes and it sounded so cool and creepy we added it as an outro.

Can that part be heard anywhere online?

 

[deanbailey]

I agree with DSS3 saying that playing with headphones helps with the isolation and tightness...

..but I'm still not convinced that, that is the only solution.
There was a thread on this before btw.

 

["Evil" Aidy]

This is a strange phenomenon...

I have a dual screen setup, 1 x LCD screen and an old CRT monitor.

I only seem to get click bleed when I have the CRT monitor turned on?

My guitar is plugged into the instrument jack on my FIREPOD that sits on top of my CRT monitor.

Bizarre!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

CRT monitors are the devil when it comes to noise.

 

[Metaltastic]

Ain't it the truth! Just turn it off whenever you're tracking, or throw it out!