having an issue with AA 3

[eeb]

Okay so this is kinda wierd. I have a full session.. drums bass 3 guitars and vocals and i'm getting this wierd clicking noise.. It sorta sound like something is clipping although nothing is.. when i listen to just the drums they're fine.. just the guitars they're all fine.. and when I mix down the clicks are usually gone.

I noticed when i have to many effects running it amplifies this problem until i freeze the tracks.. but even when i freeze all the tracks sometimes that clicky crackly sound is still there.. it makes it near impossible to mix if i have to unfreeze only one track at a time to work on it..

this has never been a problem.. I'm running the trial version right now so maybe that's an issue.. the computer i'm running is a duel 2.2 processor with 2 gigs of ram so somehow i don't think that's the issue

[chrisharris]

Doesn't sound like a processor issue, because if it was, you'd run into the same problem even if you had most of the tracks muted during playback... what are you monitoring through?

[sikter]

Check your buffer size!
I have it on 64 or 128 samples when I record but when I start to mix i turn it up to 2048. Don't be afraid to turn it even more.
When I used SB Live card I had it on 5120. (I use sample rate 44,1 kHz)

[dobro]

What Sikter said. In my soundcard's buffer settings, it says:

"Setting a buffer size that is too small may result in pops and clicks"