Hello and thanks to whomever is taking the time to help..My Issue is, I still have audio coming through on my track meter when recording through JUST the audio interface  but with the gain all the way down..Has anyone else had this problem??...another thing is I have a mixing board and when I have my guitar running through the mixing board to the interface it don't do it...I have two interfaces and it does this with both..Please help..

Do you have the echo button enabled on the track? Just a guess.

Thanks for the feedback!! but no I don't...

Well I'm sure someone will be along shortly that has a TON more knowledge than me to get you all figured out. There are a lotta really good people here. Welcome to the forum!

.My Issue is, I still have audio coming through on my track meter when recording through JUST the audio interface but with the gain all the way down

What gain? There are many gain stages, so please explain your entire gain stage and signal chain..
 
Cj

guitar to Interface to Computer....The only gain knob is on my AKAI EIE PRO..with that knob all the way down sound is still coming through a little, through my speakers and into my daw..

I can't see any other explanation than that the gain of the Akai/the other interface simply doesn't go to zero or there's some kind of a leak. I can't imagine anything could be done in SONAR to fix it.
Another thing is, what problems does this cause to you?
In what kind of situations does it disturb you? Does the same happen with vocal/microphones?
 
I've never tried if my E-MU lets anything through with input gain at zero.

Well I have been recording and producing music for about 8 years now...I have never had this problem... I am trying to weed out the cause... I have even went as far as sending my akai out to the manufacturer to be fixed... but nothing was wrong with it.. I guess I will record with it and try that... The obvious problem would be it disrupts the noise floor bringing the audio clarity down..what do you think..  

combyjames
guitar to Interface to Computer....The only gain knob is on my AKAI EIE PRO..with that knob all the way down sound is still coming through a little, through my speakers and into my daw..

Something is producing the gain outside of sonar. Maybe the gain doesn't go down low enough to make the audio not heard. Check your Specs for your Akai. If you are using a guitar, maybe the pickups are active. It can be many things causing this. check the manual for your Akai