Panning fully to one side??? Backing/click track?

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I've got two separate tracks in pro tools. I've got a backing track which I've panned fully to the right and a click track panned fully to the left. When I listen on headphones, I can always hear a small amount of the other track in the wrong side. For instance, I can hear a low level of audio panned to the left in the right ear and a small amount of the audio panned to the right in the left ear. I can't seem to isolate the the left track to the left ear only and vice-versa.

I'm doing this so that I can use the backing track live which I'll send the right side to the mixing desk and the drummer will have a separate mix of only the click in the left side.

I've also tried in Garageband and got the same problem.

Hope that makes sense. Can anyone help?
 
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I'm not recording anything. Ive imported two mono tracks: one backing track and the other click track. Then panning each independently hard left and right.
 
I believe, and I could be wrong, correct me if i am,
That mono is stretched across the panning spectrum,
So even with panning one to the full 100,
You will still hear a little regardless.
 
So if I turn the backing track into a stereo track and the click into a stereo track then pan them hard left and right, do you think that would work? Thanks for the reply.
 
I see no sense in at least trying it.
I -could- be wrong, but I'm pretty s ure it's how it all works.
 
Full pan is 100% in Sonar here (tried it just in case..:) Even the meter set -97 range shows nothing on the attenuated side. Sure there's no ohter paths happening? aux sends, fx?
The analog end can have a bit of cross talk -maybe a mixer doing it?
 
It's really weird. I've tried with stereo tracks too. Same deal. Can anyone else have a quick go with protools or garage band and see of the same happens. Or know any free audio software that will definitely hard pan?
 
They're plugged into my digi002. It also happens through the speakers that are plugged into my 002 and through the mixer and PA I use for playback. I literally don't understand. If you pan any track hard left or right in protools it should solely come out that side, right?
 
It shouldn't happen with 2 mono tracks. Unless the tracks themselves had bleed from each other.

When you mute one track, do you still hear it faintly coming from the un-muted track??? If so, it was recorded that way and there's nothing you can do about it. If not, try 2 other channels. Maybe the channels you're using have funky pan-pots that aren't panning properly (all the way).
 
It could be bleed issue in the analog stage on the interface. Check the hardware specs and give Digi tech support a call.
 
OK..........back to absolute basics.

I have my headphones plugged straight into my macbook. In garageband, if I pan any mono track hard left or right. It's louder in one ear than the other but not fully isolated to one ear!!!! Argggghhhhh!!!!!!!! It's doing my head in.:mad:

It's the same in every software sequencer I've got (protools, garageband & audacity). I've tried different headphones too.

What am I missing?
 
I'm not getting why it would do that at all.. Unless its from you monoing the tracks for some reason. Other than that.... wtf..
 
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