Bleed through when multitracking

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Ok, any insight is appreciated. I have a Spirit Notepad mixer running into a soundblaster live platinum drive in my PC. I've just installed Vegas Pro and am pretty dang excited about multitracking, but when I attempt to record a second track, the first track is recorded onto the second (along with the new stuff).
It sounds like some kind of prefernces problem with my sound card, but I've tried changing everything I could think of. No luck.

Thanks for reading,
Bluegrass
 
Questions:
  1. Are you selecting the channel properly? (It should say 1L or 1R if you are recording only 1 channel of your soundcard (assuming it is the only audio device).
  2. What OS are you using?
  3. What version of Vegas?
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I have Vegas Pro 1.0 on Windows 98. I don't know how to tell if I am selecting the correct channel. Where do I look for that: on Vegas or on the Sound Blaster.
Sorry to be so clueless, I've just been looking at this ****ing thing for hours. Make it stop. Oh... the humanity.
Anyway, Is that a preference in the Sound Blaster?
 
Vegas 1.0.... (It's been a while...)
Look around in the menus for properties/preferences/audio/routing <-just buzzwords, any and all might apply.

You want to choose "custom routing". Point recording and playback/Bus A to your soundblaster.

Then when you hit the red button to arm a track for recording, you should see a number pop up next to the red button. Click on that number, and choose the correct portion of your soundblaster. Vegas makes you do this in 2 steps, first step choosing the right channel, like 1,2 Soundblaster Live, then you go back in and choose Stereo, left or right at the bottom of the list.

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Before you do anything else, I suggest you open up the Windows Mixer (double click on the speaker icon in your system tray). Go to Options -> Properties, and click the button for Recording, then click OK.

You should get what looks like a mixer. See what is checked off. You should have Line In checked. If you have "What You Hear" checked, that is your problem. It will record everything going through the sound card (i.e., the playback and the new track).
 
Well that was pretty easy. You folks sure are friendly round these parts. It was the mixer part and it was right under my nose the whole dang time. Cotton pickin thang dangit. I'd like to thank all Ya'll, thanks dachay2tnr, thanks to all the fans and the ladies of course. "What you hear" ain't what you want. I'm either gonna go record something or have a beer in celebration.
Life is good, thanks and Ja-bless
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