Guitar Track Bleed
OK. Took me quite some time to figure this out.
I've been getting all my other tracks bleeding into my electric guitar track. Very faint but at times it can be heard when I don't want it to be.
Through a process of elimination I discovered that my guitar itself was responsible. I don't know if the strings are picking up the vibrations of the other music coming from the speakers as I play along or if the digital pickup in the guitar is picking up the sound from the speakers and recording it to the track. My guitar is a Variax and it doesn't have pickups like other electric guitars. Instead the sound from the strings is converted to digital and then back into analog before being sent out to an amp or sound card. This is how they achieve the modeling effects to simulate 25 different guitar models.
Anyway, I thought this was interesting and glad I finally figured it out. However I'm wondering if this happens with regular electric guitars with the typical SC or Humbucker pickups? If it does then I suppose it's the strings picking up the vibrations from the speakers. (Which really doesn't sound too logical) If not then it must be the digital pickup in the Variax guitar. If I use headphones while recording the electric guitar I don't get the track bleed.
Maybe this post might help someone else in the future if they run a search on track bleed.
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