Audio bleed caused by monitors?!

[Dexterprog]

First of all, I don't have pro monitors, I have Edifier R1000tc speakers
I was having audio bleed from whatever was played (metronome, other tracks, etc) into the recorded track. Even with nothing connected to my interface, bleeding occurs. After removing my speakers and plugging my dad's shitty desktop speakers all bleeding is gone. How can my Edifiers be causing this? Even when they are turned off the bleeding occurs

 

[miroslav]

What kind of computer is it?

What is the audio interface?

What audio app are you using?

 

[Steenamaroo]

you get bleed with the speakers turned off??

do you have headphones on?


if there are no speakers or headphones playing your music, it's not bleed , as in microphone picking up unwanted audio,

it's gonna be interference or cross talk between cables right?

idk, describe your setup a bit better, and exactly what your doing when it happens.

 

[RAMI]

First of all, I don't have pro monitors, I have Edifier R1000tc speakers
I was having audio bleed from whatever was played (metronome, other tracks, etc) into the recorded track. Even with nothing connected to my interface, bleeding occurs. After removing my speakers and plugging my dad's shitty desktop speakers all bleeding is gone. How can my Edifiers be causing this? Even when they are turned off the bleeding occurs

So, your speakers are on, and the mic is picking up what's coming out of the speakers????

I have no idea how that can happen.

 

[Dexterprog]

What kind of computer is it?

What is the audio interface?

What audio app are you using?

Windows PC (I can give you the full specs if you want)
Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 (also happened with a Presonus Firebox)
Reaper

you get bleed with the speakers turned off??

do you have headphones on?


if there are no speakers or headphones playing your music, it's not bleed , as in microphone picking up unwanted audio,

it's gonna be interference or cross talk between cables right?

idk, describe your setup a bit better, and exactly what your doing when it happens.

Speakers turned off and nothing else plugged in the interface (not even headphones) produces unwanted audio (what I call "bleed" and what you describe as crosstalk). Changing the monitors cable didn't resolve the issue.

How to reproduce it: plug nothing into the interface (except the cable that goes to the monitors), arm a track for recording (it should record nothing but noise), play something loud (a click, an mp3 in Winamp, another track), hit record. Effect: when I bust the volume of the recorded track to the max (or when I compress it) I can hear what was being played in the background)

So, your speakers are on, and the mic is picking up what's coming out of the speakers????

I have no idea how that can happen.

Nope, nothing is plugged into the interface. See the above reply and the original post.

 

[gcapel]

produces unwanted audio (.

on idle or when in playback?

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

plug nothing into the interface (except the cable that goes to the monitors), arm a track for recording (it should record nothing but noise), play something loud (a click, an mp3 in Winamp, another track), hit record. Effect: when I bust the volume of the recorded track to the max (or when I compress it) I can hear what was being played in the background)

Your speaker magnets may possibly be inducing a signal into your interface cables.

Try better interface cables and a better path for your cables away from your speaker magnets and not perpendicular to the speaker direction of travel. And keep your interface away from the speakers as reasonably possible.

G.

 

[miroslav]

Windows PC (I can give you the full specs if you want)

I was curious if it's a laptop or desktop?

 

[Dexterprog]

on idle or when in playback?

When something is playing

Your speaker magnets may possibly be inducing a signal into your interface cables.

Try better interface cables and a better path for your cables away from your speaker magnets and not perpendicular to the speaker direction of travel. And keep your interface away from the speakers as reasonably possible.

G.

But it also happens when the monitors are turned off. I have also tried another cable and the result was the same

I was curious if it's a laptop or desktop?

Desktop.


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Edit: ok, it might be the cable after all. I was using an RCA-to-plug cable (2 plugs: left and right). I had an old RCA-to-plug (one stereo plug) and plugged in the headphones out and now there's no bleeding. I think I should get 2 RCA-to-plug (mono plug) cables to try and see if the problem was using the first type of cable mentioned