Nov 17, 2004 08:30 am Maybe recording too hot? Sometimes I get pops when I record too hot.
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Repeatative Popping sound? Can anyone advise?
Posted on Nov 17, 2004 06:48 am
Simon Ahmed
Member Since: Nov 17, 2004
I'm fairly new to home recording and in need of some advice... Some months back I set up my PC to do basic recording, the basic setup was as follows:
Fairly basic PC with standard soundcard. Guitar Amp 'out' or 'headphone socket' plugged directly into the 'Line in' of the PC and I was using a copy of 'Cakewalk guitar tracks pro' to record with... It was a perfectly adequate setup for the basic recording/mixing I was attempting to do....
Anyways 2months into recording the bloody PC blew up and I lost all my tracks (note to self remember to BACK UP!) anyway I recently pucrchased a new PC much more powerful than the old piece of cr4p I had before... and with the same set up I attempted to record again. However whenever I play back anything I've recorded I get a repeatative popping or cracking throughout the track and I can't figure out why?!... the set up is exactly the same as before. I tried a copy of 'Cakewalk home studio 2' but the same thing occurs?
Any suggestions to what I'm doing wrong???
Si
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Nov 17, 2004 08:30 am Maybe recording too hot? Sometimes I get pops when I record too hot.
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Nov 17, 2004 08:53 am My bad, you might have your guitar too loud going in to the PC. Try recording it on a lower volume just to see if it still clicks and pops.
Nov 17, 2004 01:43 pm Oh yeah, try increasing your latency in the settings of whatever softwar you use. Try that before re-recording.
Nov 18, 2004 08:18 am Hey man thanks for the suggestions, but neither appear to be working.... adjusting both the Recording level of the PC and the amp helped a little, but the crackling etc is still clearly there just a little quiter....
Any other ideas?
Nov 18, 2004 09:07 am ok...crackeling sound...dies it also have a slight tone to it like a sick pigeon? It might just be machine noise if you are useing a soundblaster card... itf you are useing onboard sound then it will be machine noise.
Is there a printer turned on? That might cause some noise like that through the speaker.
What is the manufacturer of the card?
Nov 18, 2004 09:42 am Good call zek, probably computer noise.
Nov 18, 2004 09:59 am No printer.... but have an enabled network card??
any way around computer noise? or is that a stupid question?
Nov 18, 2004 10:14 am Hmmmm here's another thing that may help..... If I export a project from Cakewalk into .Wav format and then play it back using media player or music match etc then it sounds perfectly fine, but playing it back in Cakewalk I get the popping sound?!?! how annoying....
Nov 18, 2004 10:17 am Sound like a mis-tweaked setup, buffers are to low or you are trying to push it to too low of a latency. Have you tried all the driver options for your card? ASIO, WDM, MME, whatever options it gives you?
Nov 18, 2004 12:34 pm if it happens only in cakewalk then it will probably be a latency problem.... set the latency to as long as possible "safe" and see if it goes away.
media player and the like won't have latency problems because they will process the audio on their own time and then send out the signal and even though the disk may be a second or so ahead you don't notice because it doesn't apply to anything. In recording software it's different, they try to play the audio _NOW_ which can stress the hard drive buffer and there will still be some inherent delay of a few miliseconds. This is important if you are useing input monitoring to listen to what has been recorded while it's _being_ recorded... as you can only have a delay of 11ms before it will start screwing you up... with a lot of audio that can be hard to achieve... I think my latency is around 300ms but my souncard has 0 latency monitoring built in it so like the media player latency doesn't really affect me.
Nov 18, 2004 01:00 pm Woohoo! we have lift off!.... only taken me 3 months! ha ha...
Mixture of Latency and Buffer tweeking plus disabled my network card as that seemed to be causing a few probs...
Cheers for everyones suggestions! Should of posted on here sooner!!
Si
May 05, 2005 03:01 am This seems to be my problem EXACTLY. How did you fix it Simon?
May 05, 2005 03:49 am "Mixture of Latency and Buffer tweeking plus disabled my network card as that seemed to be causing a few probs..."
Check you latency/buffer settings and try to adjust to see if your situation improves as per the above.
Also disable any uncessary hardware cards which may be causing a problem...
Coco.
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