noise and clicks

Posted on Mar 04, 2006 02:02 pm
olliel
Member Since: Dec 22, 2005

Hi there, i just started to record guitar today. Im using cubase LE, not the best but good enough.

heres by chain:

Amp> 2 condensors mics>Mixer>Aux send>Compressor> Pc in L + R.

Im gettin a signal in my pc and can record quietly, but as soon as it gets louder, but nowhere near clipping or peaking, i start to hear pops and clicks.

i feel this is either due to my slightly longer leads being coiled up or just really bad compressor settings.

Thanks for looking, hope you can help me!!

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zekthedeadcow
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Mar 04, 2006 10:00 pm

it's is probably latency, you my need to increase your buffers.

olliel
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Since: Dec 22, 2005

Mar 05, 2006 05:38 am

Ok, although i thought latency was just a delay? I think i have a buffer of 2, should i increase this then?

Also, would it cause this by recording in 24bit as I am currently?

Thankyou

zekthedeadcow
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Mar 05, 2006 08:57 am

latency is the delay necessary for the computer to complete processing the signal.

you can try increasing the 2 to 4... there should be another value laong the lines of 128, 256, 512, or 1024... that is probably what should be adjusted... sometimes the recording software will have a slider in an audio options menu to make these adjustments easier... I'm not sure if cubase does...