Bleeding from one channel to another

[mrdee]

First my setup :

IBM Aptiva
AMD K6 400 Mhz Processor
120 Mb RAM
Avance Logic ALS 4000 Soundcard
DirectX 7
VST 5 R6.

Note : In Audio Setup, my choice is set to 'DirectX Full Duplex' rather than 'ASIO Multimedia Driver'
for latency reasons.

My mike is connected to the mike input of the SC rather than line in.

Now the problem :

Could anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong ?

When recording audio tracks, i.e. first recording the music on Audio track 1 and then the vocals on
Audio track 2, the vocals on track 2 (recorded through a mike) always pick up the music from track
1, yet, in the volume control panel I have Wave and synthesizer muted, and the MIDI tracks are also
muted, moreover, I am working with headphones on, so the sound playing from track 1 cannot travel
into the mike.
I know the obvious thing to do is to mute track 1, but then the music to sing along to cannot be
heard.

Does anyone have a remedy ?

All help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Frankie.

[Mistral]

well, my first thought is that you have the wrong setting checked in your windows recording volume mixer. (taskbar>speaker icon>double click> then options from the main mixer menu)

getting bleed from other tracks.. well, hell of a lot more than bleed, you'd actually have your other tracks mixed totally with whatever instrument you're recording.. would be caused by having the soundcard "loopback" or "stereo/mono mix" setting checked. this basically records whatever is going through your soundcard at the time. that's one way... easily remedied by checking the proper input.

But this is probably not your problem.

However I must ask, why are you recording through your mic input? Not familiar with your soundcard here but, Line In always records best from my experience. What I do is run a mixing console into my line-in, and plug a mic into the mixer. This allows stereo input, if desired, as well as some pre EQing on my guitars or whatever.

Back to your main issue, what I'm betting is, the direct x full duplex setting you have chosen is your problem. after all, Cubase is designed around ASIO.

try upgrading to DX 8 if that's an option for you.
and use an OS that is relatively fast and not super RAM hungry. I use Win2k, and have used it with much less resources than you have there.. get Freemem Pro and have it running always. and make your swap file a fixed size. Then see if you can get the ASIO drivers running acceptably. Adjust your buffers and whatnot.

[mrdee]

Thanks Mixtral,

But even changing to ASIO Multimedia driver doe not change a thing.