Hard clipping/pops

[Jason Molinari]

Hello...

session goes like this:

track one: temporary drums from casio keyboard; direct
track two: acoustic; direct
track three: acoustic mic'd (012/condenser) real time with track two

the problem: on playback i get an imediate pop, the meters spike and everything stops. sometimes it sputters along. solo track one--all is good. solo track two--nothing doing. solo track three--all good. play one and three together (mute #two) all is dandy.

so what gives with track two?

rerecorded several times (direct) on two and then on four and the playback spikes, everything stops; checked all input/output meters on the soundcard (omni i/o--delta 66) and all seems fine.

i keep a demo session on file to try stuff out and went direct with the acoustic and it worked fine.

thought it was the phantom power but i don't think it's the problem. is it? (it was off during the rerecords) anything to do with the other instruments listed? or just a random quirk?

thanks.

jason

[chrisharris]

were any of the tracks originally mp3's? I ask only because I seem to remember a similarly weird problem on a collab I did a long time ago. If I remember correctly, the way I fixed it was to take the offending track (seems to maybe be track 2 in your session) into "edit" mode, highlight the first 2 seconds, hit "silence" under the Effects tab (even if it's already silent, lol), then save it as a totally new file which you insert into the multi-track. Be sure to save it as a wave file with a new name.

Yes, it's a random quirk, but I think this killed it for me.

If that doesn't work, you may have a corrupted session file, and the easiest method for fixing it if you only have 3 tracks in this session is to do what I suggested above, then start an entirely new session and import the other 2 tracks plus the edited/resaved track 2 into the new session and see if the demons have gone away yet.

Good luck