Clicks on recording!?

[Naraithsil]

Heya, im new here, been viewing the forum for some months now, but I have a problem with a recording ive been doing so I decided to sign up to ask for some advice from the experts!

In the following clip, there are several click/pop sounds which show up alot on my monitors, these arent the levels clipping either!

Happens on distorted guitar, acoustic guitar, anything really..

Heres the clip http://www.darkdayssoftware.com/Lead_06.wav An example of what im talking about is at around 0:08 seconds, and a more obvious one at around 0:38 seconds.

We've narrowed it down to the M-Audio box we're using (taking all other equipment out of the process)
We're using a PC with XP Service Pack 2, and Cubase SX 3

Any advice how to solve this, or prevent it in future would be appreciated



Thanks

 

[Forge Farm]

Heya, im new here, been viewing the forum for some months now, but I have a problem with a recording ive been doing so I decided to sign up to ask for some advice from the experts!

In the following clip, there are several click/pop sounds which show up alot on my monitors, these arent the levels clipping either!

Happens on distorted guitar, acoustic guitar, anything really..

Heres the clip http://www.darkdayssoftware.com/Lead_06.wav An example of what im talking about is at around 0:08 seconds, and a more obvious one at around 0:38 seconds.

We've narrowed it down to the M-Audio box we're using (taking all other equipment out of the process)
We're using a PC with XP Service Pack 2, and Cubase SX 3

Any advice how to solve this, or prevent it in future would be appreciated



Thanks

Hello.

I have an EMU 1820 and the same happened to me. I solved it by increasing the input latency of the ASIO drivers before mixing (don't forget to decrease it again during recording).

Anyway, here is the link to the EMU database knowledge. I think it tottaly applies to the M-Audio box.

Nuno

 

[Matt Crooks]

It sounds like a clocking issue.

 

[Naraithsil]

Thanks but...
regards to the first post... We can't seem to change the sample buffer.. well anything to do with the sample stuff... seems to be fixed...

Clocking issue?
Can you explain a bit about it?

Thanks

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

Check that you have everything set to the same midi clock (i.e. the internal) ?

 

[Naraithsil]

The only option we have for the clocks is 'internal' or 'external' and its set on internal, sample rate is locked at 44100Hz and buffer size we have at 512 samples.

When we decrease the amount of samples the problem seemed to get worse, so we thought increasing it would solve it, but it just makes the pops occurr less often. But the problem still persists!

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

Set the buffer a little bit higher, that's odd tho... 512 is usually ok.

 

[Naraithsil]

We set it to 2048 at some point today and we still had clicks, i'll try this again tommorow though, thanks for the advice though!

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

Ouch, that is weird... are all your connectors and cabeling in good order?

 

[Naraithsil]

Ouch, that is weird... are all your connectors and cabeling in good order?

We think so, well, atleast, they are all new and we have tried different ones!

 

[Terabyte]

Hey,

K basically i solved the problem like this

Goto device manager, and find the list of IRQ resources.

Basically i had not 1... but 5 other items of equiptment on the same IRQ.. and as windows doesn't let you change them, you can change them by going to cmos and fiddling around til you get to the IRQ page.. find the slot the Firewire card was in (not slot 1 or 5 as they are shared anyway) and set it forced from automatic to IRQ 12 set everything else to IRQ 11.

So what I had was analogous to having a Jumbo Jet, Filling it with elephants, turning it on its head to concetrate the force on the nose of the plane, and putting a mini underneath with a prematurly born baby inside, letting the plane go and having the bookies say "yeah that baby will survive"

In short... hey naraithsil.. fancy redoing our three days of recording again?
with beer? :hotjump:

 

[MKS]

We've narrowed it down to the M-Audio box we're using

Which box are you using?

 

[Naraithsil]

It was the Firewire Solo box, but it turns out that it was the resources on Terabytes PC being overshared (read above)

Many thanks to everyone who was helping though

"In short... hey naraithsil.. fancy redoing our three days of recording again?
with beer?"

If I have time then yeah definitely ^