Getting bleed from the click on other tracks

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Greetings,

I'm using Pro Tools LE 8 and recently I've starting making some backing tracks to use live with my worship band, especially when the rotation is kind of thin.

I typically mix keyboards, an acoustic guitar, maybe a drum loop. All of the instrumentation is hard panned (100%) to the right. The click is hard panned (100%) to the left. This is so we can hear both live in our in-ear monitors and then the sound engineer mutes the left channel going to the house so that the audience doesn't hear the click. Even though I don't hear any bleed while mixing, whenever I bounce the track, I can always hear the click faintly on the right speaker. I checked it on various speaker systems, ipods, etc. and it's always there, so it's not the panning ability of the player, it must be on the track after bounce.

Any suggestions for getting rid of this problem?

Thanks.
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I recently experienced something similar. Turned out that the extra sound was being picked up from my headphones by the microphone when laying down the backing tracks. Spent a lot of time looking for a much more complex problem before figuring it out:(
 
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No solution to what you already have, but I would just record your actual song to a click track (so don't record the click, use some headphones to hear it), then just record the actual click separately...problem solved, no bleed.

I'm really trying to understand this, but why do you need a click track for playing live in the first place?
 
"c" and "l" right next to each other kinda look like a "d" when you just glance at it. That would be a much different problem!
 
Stereo reverb on the click track would cause that problem.
 
Capt Hair said:
No solution to what you already have, but I would just record your actual song to a click track (so don't record the click, use some headphones to hear it), then just record the actual click separately...problem solved, no bleed.

I'm really trying to understand this, but why do you need a click track for playing live in the first place?
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The recorded intruments could be coming in at like the 9th bar of the song. Plus just to keep the timing tight.
 
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