Recording help! please and thank you.

[pumpkinhead303]

alrighty... Here's another dumb question from the new guy!!! I'm using Acid Pro 4.0 and i recorded the drum tracks and the turned out cool... Now when i go to record guitars on another track it's recording the drums again over top of the guitars on the same track there just bleeding right through... what am i doing wrong? Please help...

[crankz1]

What soundcard are you using?
You need to make sure the record input is set in the windows mixer to "line in" or "mic in" depending on which you are using. You don't want it set to "What U hear" (Creative calls it that) or "Stereo mixer" ... It must be line in or mic in for which ever you use!
Double click the little speaker .... click options .... click properties ... click recording ..... place a check mark in all of the options it lists ...... click OK.
Now you are looking at all of the inputs. Place a check mark at the desired input (Line-In or Microphone) that you are connecting to.

[pumpkinhead303]

Right on man,
I'm using a sony vaio laptop, i'm not sure what thay put in there... I though when you put a check mark on the input it muted that channel. Well you learn something new everyday... So that should stop the tracks from bleeding troughand rerecording itself? I'll give it a try... Thanks

[crankz1]

Yeah if you follow the directions that I posted, you should be fine.
Remember ... When you double click that little speaker by the clock .... the window that pops up is strictly for playback volume adjustments (soundcards outputs). You must select Options at the top and then Properties. Within the properties window, you must select to adjust volumes for recording (soundcards inputs). Then click OK. Now you will be looking at all the Recording (inputs) volume controls. You will now see that you no longer have the mute option. It is now replaced with select, and you can only select one of the inputs. The only inputs you would want to use are Line-IN or Microphone. Really you don't even want to use the Microphone input as the pre amp circuit on soundcards is very poor quality (to say the least). Of course high end cards are a whole different story. They are built with recording in mind. Plain old stereo soundcards and internal sound chips aren't. Thats why the ones that use the lower end soundcards are recommended to use the line in input in conjunction with a decent outboard pre amp of some sort.
What happens when you select "Wave" or "Stereo Mixer" or "What U Hear" (creative soundblaster's name for it) .... the soundcard is mixing everything going through it to the recording circuit. Hence the reason you get bleeding of what you are listening to into the next track you record.

-Ken

[pumpkinhead303]

Dude you were right on the money with that one, it works great, my guitar tracks sound sick, i'll post them when we're done with the cd, thanks again!!