Other channels distort after adding guitar effects

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Re: Other channels distort after adding guitar effects 2016/01/15 00:53:42 (permalink)
I'm beginning to fear you may be correct.
 
The unit is an old HP 6530B laptop. Core Duo, DDR2 RAM.
 
Now there is 4GB of RAM, and Task Manager reports a steady 3GB used. So swapping isn't a factor.
 
As noted before, CPU spikes to 70% but never comes close to redlining.
 
I worry that the older, slower memory buss might be a factor, but don't know how to (dis)prove the theory.
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Re: Other channels distort after adding guitar effects 2016/05/21 14:45:46 (permalink)
Sorry for the long delay (wife battling cancer 2.0, so my time is not my own). But, in the meanwhile, the entire DAW has been replaced with an i5, DDR3 box. Plenty of processor room (though fighting Windows induced dropouts was a fight).
 
I think I solved the problem, though how it was created I'm unsure. Each lane in the lead guitar track appears to have been recorded in stereo, and the left channel appears to have picked-up the existing mix during recording (echo back from the Lexicon?). By bouncing a track, splitting to separate mono tracks, then muting the suspect one, everything cleaned up.
 
So, the new question is how in the &%&*^#^ did the other tracks get bled into the right channel of the lead guitar (direct boxed into the DAW).
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