studio 32 problem

[digital death squad]

i recently bought an alesis studio 32 mixer to use with my roland 1680 and today was the first time that ive tried to use it to do a serious recording. when i got it i checked every channel and they all worked fine and it appeared to be in good working order but when i used it today i got all types of bleeding from other tracks. i didnt think that it was possible for this to happen. i plugged the mic cables into the mic ins(duh) and used balanced(trs) cables to go from the direct outs of the mixer to the 1680 and and when i played back the 7 tracks i recorded, 1-6 were drums and 7 was a guitar scratch track,on tracks 1-4 i could hear the guitar bleeding through.i tried everything i could think- of the guitar was already on the other side of the house and you couldnt even hear it if you stood right outside of the room it was in the ,i put the guitar directly into the mixer using an art tube mp and still it could be heard on tracks 1-4 and if i turned up the gain of the guitar on the mixer i could see the green led(-20 db) light up on trcks 1,2,and 4. what am i doing wrong? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks,

dan

[swan]

Make sure that your tape return monitor signals are not feeding any of the submix chanels.But if you are using the inline
tape monitor chanels as the board is designed
to do, this sould not happen.
Let me know how you make out couse I am
thinking of buying one too.

[Jason001]

Hey Sonusman,
Why wouldn't a guy run a mp to the mixer?
Could you give an example of the proper way to use it. I don't have much experience with mixers but,why do you consider the 32 a cheap mixer? I use a 24 and other than a little coloring I find it to be quite functional and pleasant to work with.

[mwande23]

I had problems with bleeding between the AUX channels and the main's in a Studio 32. I took it back where I bought it (still under warranty thankfully), Leo Pro Audio. They could find the problem so they burned in an entirely new board, now the problem is solved, and the mixer sounds pretty good.
If yours is still under warranty I strongly advise you to have it fixed. If any of you just bought one of these, check it carefully for any bleeding.

[Jason001]

Apparently sonusman is too "special" to respond.

[digital death squad]

i guess you wouldnt run a mp to the mixer because technically you should just run it to the recorder. you want to keep you signal paths as short as possible. the only reason i ran the mp to the mixer was to by pass the pres on the mixer. i was using the monitor outs of the studio 32 to feed the headphones for the guitarists and using the headphone outs on the 1680 for the drummer so i had to run the guitars into the mixer or there would have been no guitars in the guitarists headphones. the guitar tracks that were being recorded were only scratch tracks and quality was not very important. anyway the bleed is gone now. i dont know what happened it just disappeared. must've ran off when i threatened to kick its ass.

[Jason001]

Thanks!