Other audio tracks bleeding onto my DI tracks

[thedonutman]

I've been listening closely to my DI tracks and I've noticed that the audio from other tracks that were being played at the same time are now bleeding into the original. It's not very noticeable when I'm running amp sims, like Wagner and Amplitube. But I'm planning on reamping some tracks, and I suspect this might become a problem.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Here's an example:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/867382/bleed.mp3

It's a DI of me playing some random riffs, and you can clearly hear stuff in the background.

 

[Zack Uidl]

strange dude, not sure why that would be. That is definitely an issue that would need to be fixed. I would check your routing in your DAW. Depending on how things are setup, you might have accidentally routed or bused something slightly into the DI track and it is actually not part of the DI, just a strange bus situation.

sorry, never happened to me so not sure

 

[thedonutman]

I have a feeling it's hardware, because it happens in both Cubase and Reaper.
Then again, it might be M-audio's crappy drivers.

I'll give it a try on my other PC and see if it still happens.....

 

[Yhanthlei]

probably some sort of interference, like your pickups picking up goggly
the stuff played back through the monitors... bad shielding or something...
but i might be completely wrong as well ^^

 

[derfbonker]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think you're right, interference.

 

[Unavailable]

Well, I've noticed when I record guitars and drums in the same room at the same time, I can hear the drums in the guitars pickups when the guitarist isn't playing. Obviously, though, the drums are much louder than you probably use your monitors at. Could be the same issue though, maybe?

 

[thedonutman]

I record with headphones on.

 

[Unavailable]

lol, nvm then.

 

[Erkan]

wow that's really fucking strange... update the thread if you ever find out what the problem is.

 

[Zool2107]

I record with headphones on.

Where is your headphone cable routed? If it's between the guitar and your chest, maybe that's the problem.

I had some strange bleeding in a guitar track too, and it was the headphone cable. I've asked the guitarist to move the headphone cable around the back of his guitar, and when he put it close to the body of the guitar we strated to hear on the guitar amp the music that was played back in the headphone. It was something like when you catch a radio stations with your guitar He changed the routing of the headphone cable, so it was not between the back of the guitar and his body, and the problem solved.

 

[Yhanthlei]

If it's between the guitar and your chest, maybe that's the problem.

+1
Cables create magnetic fields, magnetic fields get picked up by pickups...

 

[beyond dead]

ive done live off the floor recordings, then when i reamped guitars, i noticed the drums were getting picked up by the guitarists pick ups in spots he didnt play on. could this be the problem?

 

[Sean in Silence]

I thought this was normal¯\(°_o)/¯
hahahaha
almost all of my di tracks through my pod x3 live and schecter damien fr with passive emgs have the song playing faintly in the background
but I record with the music playing loudly through speakers
and any background noise that happens to be included in my di clip tends to disappear once I throw an amp sim on it
so it's never been a problem
weird o_0

 

[John_C]

i catch some sort of evangelical christian radio station through my guitar
"Jesus is coming in this september [2008] and if not then, then in a year coming soon!" gave me a bit of a laugh hehe

 

[53Crëw]

+1
Cables create magnetic fields, magnetic fields get picked up by pickups...

Ha! I'm glad this came up. I was doing some guitar tracks a week ago and couldn't figure out why I was getting the click track bleeding onto the guitar track even with the control room monitors turned off and the amp, cab, and mic were in a different room. In hindsight, I guess the pickups were picking up the magnetic field from the headphone cable.

 

[thedonutman]

Yeah, I think I've cracked it. I've recently switched headphones, and I think the shielding must be different or something.

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

a buddy of mine had that problem one time and we were sitting there asking y it sounded like the metronome was in the same track....then asked wait y isnt the click even in the right time....turns out when he was playing somehow his PU's got the sound of his watch ticking....he took it off and re-tracked and it was gone

 

[DanLights]

a buddy of mine had that problem one time and we were sitting there asking y it sounded like the metronome was in the same track....then asked wait y isnt the click even in the right time....turns out when he was playing somehow his PU's got the sound of his watch ticking....he took it off and re-tracked and it was gone

wow, that's pretty freaky, picking up the watch clicking haha

 

[Morgan C]

Yeah, I get bleed into all my tracks (a fault of the FP10), even mic'd tracks. I made a thread about it. But it rarely becomes an issue. I could only ever hear the click in guitars in silences, and those get cut out anyway.

 

[Rex Rocker]

Yeah, the click usually bleeds into my guitar DI's, but the noise gate in POD Farm takes care of it.