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Subject:Channel Bleed - Any Ideas? Posted by: Alphasnail Date:8/12/2004 8:42:44 PM Sorry for the tech support type question, but I'm at my wit's end. I am trying to use Sound Forge 6.0 to pan a track entirely to one channel. I want total silence in the other channel. Unfortunately anything I do still leaves a substantial amount of the sound in the muted channel, even though the wave form in that channel is displayed as totally mute. I have tried every variation of the Channel Conversion processing tool with the same result. If I take the panned track and run it in Acid, it's the same result. Even if I pan an individual track 100% to one side, I can still hear a substantial amount of it in the supposedly mute channel. Arrrg! Might anyone have a solution?
Subject:RE: Channel Bleed - Any Ideas? Reply by: Chienworks Date:8/12/2004 9:18:50 PM This sounds like more of a hardware problem with your soundcard than a software problem. Try this experiment: in Sound Forge select a portion of only one channel. This can be done easily by dragging the cursor above the upper 0dB line to select only the left channel or below the lower 0dB line to select only the right channel. Click Process / Mute. This will mute the section you had selected. Play this section back. If you hear anything from that channel's speaker then you have a hardware problem. Perhaps there is a short on the sound card's output that is partially mixing the two channels back together again.
Subject:RE: Channel Bleed - Any Ideas? Reply by: Rednroll Date:8/13/2004 6:43:14 AM This definately sounds lile a soundcard problem, or a cabling problem. Give more details as to which sound card you are using and the type of connections from the soundcard to your speakers.....cord end type of connectors etc.

Subject:Channel Bleed - Any Ideas?

Posted by: Alphasnail

Date:8/12/2004 8:42:44 PM

Sorry for the tech support type question, but I'm at my wit's end.

I am trying to use Sound Forge 6.0 to pan a track entirely to one channel. I want total silence in the other channel. Unfortunately anything I do still leaves a substantial amount of the sound in the muted channel, even though the wave form in that channel is displayed as totally mute. I have tried every variation of the Channel Conversion processing tool with the same result.

If I take the panned track and run it in Acid, it's the same result. Even if I pan an individual track 100% to one side, I can still hear a substantial amount of it in the supposedly mute channel.

Arrrg! Might anyone have a solution?

Subject:RE: Channel Bleed - Any Ideas?

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:8/12/2004 9:18:50 PM

This sounds like more of a hardware problem with your soundcard than a software problem. Try this experiment: in Sound Forge select a portion of only one channel. This can be done easily by dragging the cursor above the upper 0dB line to select only the left channel or below the lower 0dB line to select only the right channel. Click Process / Mute. This will mute the section you had selected. Play this section back. If you hear anything from that channel's speaker then you have a hardware problem. Perhaps there is a short on the sound card's output that is partially mixing the two channels back together again.

Subject:RE: Channel Bleed - Any Ideas?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:8/13/2004 6:43:14 AM

This definately sounds lile a soundcard problem, or a cabling problem. Give more details as to which sound card you are using and the type of connections from the soundcard to your speakers.....cord end type of connectors etc.