More echoing problems!
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Posted on Oct 04, 2006 06:46 pm
lari_3d
Member Since: Aug 09, 2005
I obviously don't use my gear often enough because every time I take a small hiatus from it I come back and have new/reacurring problems. This time it is that every new track I record in Pro Tools Free re-records all the previous tracks along with it. I discovered this when I went to mute all but one of my tracks and I could still hear everything playing quietly in the background. What's up with that? My set up is audiophile 2496 to behringer ub802 via line 3/4 and back out to audiophile via FX send and into the left input only. This set up has worked fine before so I don't understand what has changed since then. It is also echoing which I thought I had fixed simply by muting whichever track I am recording such as a keyboard track. The really weird thing is that eventually my keyboard itself will start to echo even after I have disconnected it from the mixer! I then have to turn it off and back on and it goes back to normal. I have no idea why this is happening but I should say that I have tried connecting the keyboard to the mixer through the keyboard's headphone jack as well as it's amp/speakers jack and it happened both times. This is another problem that has NEVER happened before. Okay, sorry this is so long but any help would be greatly appreciated!
PS - I should also say that my computer is as old as dirt and I sometimes wonder if some of my problems come from that...
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Oct 04, 2006 07:31 pm hmmmm loads of varibles here! fun!
ok on the software side, first i'd check the start menu > control panel > sounds and audio devices > Audio tab > then click the recording volume tab... make sure none of those are checked (i think)...ya don't wanna see anything that says "record what you hear"...i'm not positive if yours will say that...
anyway, can you access somekinda control panel (driver) for your 24/96...if so, mess around in there.
now on the hardware, i'd trouble shoot by recording strait into what ever input you have on the card itself (bypass the mixer)....if this fixes it, get back to me and we'll figure how to rewire your mixer.
happy hunting!
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
Since: Jun 24, 2004
Oct 06, 2006 08:29 am Sounds like the routing in the mixer. Where do your outputs from the soundcard go into your mixer?
Oct 10, 2006 11:24 am Okay, so I did some poking around and as I said - the computer is OLD so as far as checking in the control panel for audio and sound well, nothing much to do there and I wasn't even too sure what I was looking for. Same as in the 2496's control panel. Everything is just set to the defaults and when I started messing around with it I couldn't get any sound to register in Pro Tools so I put everything back.
As whosyourdaddy suggested I tried bypassing the mixer and went straght from my keyboard into my soundcard and that worked fine but of course, I had no control over the levels so it was very quiet.
The outputs for the mixer are currently going into line 3/4 which I was told to do by a few people but is this what is creating the echo? Is it making some sort of a loop?
And on top of all this when recording if I do a few takes of the same track by the third or fourth time everything within that session becomes heavily distorted and I have to close without saving to get it back to normal.
Thanks. So now what?
Oct 13, 2006 12:03 am SOOO stupid, but yesterday i found out one of my good friends doesn't know what date halloween is, so why the hell not
you don't record with your monitors blasting the whole session back at you, do you? Even with electric/acoustics or pickups, you can sometimes pick up loud background sounds. I have one demo where i swear i hear creaking and talking in the background because of my acoustic electric track, and i've had to redo bass tracks cause you can hear he metronome in the background.
Oct 13, 2006 11:09 am Umm, is the last post even in the right thread? Because it doesn't make sense.
Is there anybody who could help me with my problem? Maybe I need to come back into the mixer a different way?
Oct 13, 2006 11:23 am not sure about the echoing, but recording everything to a new track is a simple signal routing problem. Pretend you are a signal a follow your path thru the system, you'll find where they mix together.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Oct 13, 2006 02:29 pm Are you possibly sending the other tracks back out the FX send. Make sure the knobs are off.
Just a thought.
