Okay, I'm really losing it now...

I'm doing some more vocal tracks on the current song I'm working on. I decided to try with 2 microphones, so I'm recording one left, one right. I have all other tracks muted except the midi files. There is another voice/track coming from somewhere. I can' t figure out was is happening. I've checked 10 times and there should only be the two tracks I'm recording and the midi tracks. Any idea? I think this is the first time I try with two mic's fpr vpca;s so maybe that has something to do with it? Don't know where this ghost came from. I wouldn't care so much is the phrasing was the same, but it is noticeably different in some places. I listened to the two new tracks separately and it happened to both, so there is a hidden track somewhere. Ahh...could that be....I don't know how to hide them so it would be unintentional. Or, I just finally took the last step into senality!

Thanks.
Annette

Not a dumb question; I've tried to think of everythign too. No, it goes away if it all the vocal tracks are muted. I have inadvertently recorded over several tracks (there should be an alarm that goes off when this happensLOL) in the past couple of days, so I'm wondering if that is what happened here. I don't know if it would play both in that case or not. Of course one of those recordings are my best yet. I guess I'll delete and start over. Or maybe I'll try moving tracks down and see if I can find the hidden vocals.

Thanks Jim.

Nutty,

A human voice is mono.. Why not use one mic? Every studio pic I've ever seen of the pro's has them singing into ONE mic.

Robert makes a good point...make sure Sound on Sound is NOT selected.... that will pile the new right on with the old... I always set it up as Overwrite.

Hmm..I don't know where the sound on sound is yet. That is one thing I miss from MC 4 is the alternate control bar. I used the one that had the numbers for the markers, so I would just click on the number I wanted. Punch in recording, looping, etc was all there spelled out. Some of it is in the control bar, but it's not the same. Now I have to press F5 twice to get at the markers. Maybe there is another control bar, but I haven;t found it yet.

Herb,

I know they are mono, but I had the two microphones out becasue I was recording my guitar. So, I was curious mor than anything to see how it would work on vocals.

Bob,

Surprising the smaller mic (MXL 991) clips very easily. I have the big mic (MXL 990) cloest to the guitar, voice etc. and it doesn't...That little one is powerful or I'm doing something wrong.

OK.... my bust.... I record the guitar straight so it didn't cross my mind...I thought it was for room ambience..... sorry....

You know, since both mics are different, they will have different sounds. It might not seem like much, but since they are designed with different characteristics, they will color the sound they record different. You could use this in the mix process, and also, you have a "cloned" track, so you could add effects to each differently, and I can't think of another way to use the word "different, so I'll just stop here.
Later
Albert