bleed through in tracks

[heartbreaker197]

I have been noticing "bleed through" from one track to another; meaning for example if I record a new vocal track then if I listen to just the new track audio there is faintly in the background the music from the other tracks. Is there a setting I have wrong or something? I hadn't noticed this on older recordings i have done.

 

[Reggie]

Either your headphones are bleeding out sound, or you are using a soundblaster soundcard. For great isolation+sound, try Sennheiser HD280 phones.

 

[heartbreaker197]

I never thought of that. I did buy new headphones...they were el super cheapo....I'll switch back and see if that corrects the problem

 

[heartbreaker197]

OK, so it's not the headphones. I completely unplugged the headphones and monitors just played over the tracks with no sound playing and sound from the other tracks still bleed through. I'm using a tascam US-122 audio interface with and HP laptop on Sonar HS 4. Any other suggestions?

 

[Reggie]

Hmmm, I'm not familiar enough with that interface or even Sonar to tell you exactly what to check, but perhaps Sonar has a recording option that allows recorded tracks to mix with the playing tracks. The other thing might be that your interface has the ability to route outputs back to the inputs via software. It may be routing the main outs that Sonar is using into the inputs that you are using to record through. That is about all I can think of. Or maybe you have a poltergeist or something.