Hi all! I'm new here and i'm desperately hoping someone can help answer my question! So frustrated with this issue i'm having when trying to make multi-track music recordings.
Here's what i have going on:
Behringer dynamic microphone
Behringer Xenyx 1222 FX mixer and Behringer Xenyx 8802 mixer
Behringer UCA200 USB interface
Dell insprion 1525 laptop
Audacity recording software
Example:
I record a melody vocal track. (track 1)
I record a vocal harmony track on top of my vocal track. (track 2)
When I mute track 1 and only play back track 2, the melody vocal track (track 1) is still very quietly audible.
Same thing happens when I record a keyboard or guitar track... doesn't matter what the input is.
Even when I generate a click track in Audacity and record a "silent" track over it, I get the click track quietly in the new track.
The problem is not the sound leaking out of my headphones (I tested for that.)
It isn't leaking through somehow in the mixer because even when I use one mixer for recording and a separate one for monitoring, I have the problem.
I even installed Audacity on another computer and had the same problem.
I suspect there is an issue with the UCA200 USB interface.
Has anybody else run into this issue?
It is frustrating because the audio quality starts to sound worse and worse the more tracks I add. And if I decide to remove a harmony track later, its still hiding there in all the other tracks I recorded after that one! So I can't remove it!
Please help! This is driving me craaaaazy! Thanks
Here's what i have going on:
Behringer dynamic microphone
Behringer Xenyx 1222 FX mixer and Behringer Xenyx 8802 mixer
Behringer UCA200 USB interface
Dell insprion 1525 laptop
Audacity recording software
Example:
I record a melody vocal track. (track 1)
I record a vocal harmony track on top of my vocal track. (track 2)
When I mute track 1 and only play back track 2, the melody vocal track (track 1) is still very quietly audible.
Same thing happens when I record a keyboard or guitar track... doesn't matter what the input is.
Even when I generate a click track in Audacity and record a "silent" track over it, I get the click track quietly in the new track.
The problem is not the sound leaking out of my headphones (I tested for that.)
It isn't leaking through somehow in the mixer because even when I use one mixer for recording and a separate one for monitoring, I have the problem.
I even installed Audacity on another computer and had the same problem.
I suspect there is an issue with the UCA200 USB interface.
Has anybody else run into this issue?
It is frustrating because the audio quality starts to sound worse and worse the more tracks I add. And if I decide to remove a harmony track later, its still hiding there in all the other tracks I recorded after that one! So I can't remove it!
Please help! This is driving me craaaaazy! Thanks