Bounce leaves some tracks unheard in final file?

[studiostuff]

PT 12.8.3 - MacBook Pro (15 inch-2017) - Mac OS 10.12.6

Received some tracks to mix, basically a two channel beat and six tracks of vox. The vox are four tracks of overlapping LV and two tracks of BGVs.

I mix through a final aux track and print to a stereo audio track pair - within the session. So when I solo the final print track and listen - it contains the mix I thought I was printing.

If I command-shift-K export the file to the desktop, all is well. The file plays as expected without regard for file type of exported file (.WAV, .mp3, whatever...)

If I bounce (real time or not), the bounced files contain no Vox at all. My routing looks fine... maxed the buffer size.

Curious as to wtf this could be... Any ideas?

[Stephen Bond]

Check the output for every channel, aux and master fader. Then pay careful attention to what is being included at the bounce. Chances are you have multiple outputs you are monitoring but when it comes to bouncing you are using either selecting or the other(s). Delete the extra paths and bounce away!

Stephen

[studiostuff]

Thanks to all who responded. I especially enjoyed the knee jerks "Oh, you've got it bussed wrong!" I would have probably pulled my responses too at the point I realized I had nothing to add, yet felt compelled to add it anyway.

Sorry to take some time off today... (Uh, no I'm not really. Power day!) Me taking time off was not disrespecting you.

I thought everyone likes a mystery. It was not life or death with a deadline. Just cleaning up a friend's simple demo.

Recipe for the mystery:

Take a stereo file-a bkg track w/vocals (not a multi-track mix bussed here or there). Bounce it. Listen to the bounce. It's not the same audio as the original file. All vocal tracks are gone.

Take the same original file. Command-Shift-K export it. Result sounds exactly like the original file.

If you got nothin'... (meaning: in your vast experience you think this is not possible and must be caused by pilot error)... No need to respond and/or get ****ty. Your time is not valuable when you have nothing to say.

Anyone having something to add from personal experience that is similar to what I've described in clear language, I'd like to hear what you have to say.

Thanks in advance

[64GTOBOY]

I am curious as to the routing and type of bounce that is causing this. I have been having issues with routing through an aux bus before the output bus turning stereo tracks to mono. I had thought I had traced it back to certain plugins messing with the pan assignments but every now and then I was having mono tracks that were panned to one side showing up on both sides when the output was sent to the mix bus(Aux Track) but would sound correctly from only one side when sent directly to the master output. If I created a new mono track and moved the clip from the original audio track to the new track it would now pan correctly, even through the mix bus. I know this seems like a different issue, but I discovered it after I had several bounced tracks that when played back through windows media player had obviously been summed to mono during bouncing and in one case the whole bass buss had been apparently left out. I noticed this only happened if I bounced using the bounce to disk from the drop down file menu. So I was curious as to what your exact procedure was as I'm not convinced it is an actual bug since the issues I have seen were random and weren't consistent.