Here's my problem. Today I was recording an acoustic rhythm guitar track using a condensor mic, going into my mixer and into my soundcard. When I was done, I looked at the wave form in ntracks and saw huge clipping peaks every now and then, but the rest of the wave was around -6 dB's. When I played it back, I of course got some real bad cracks and pops from them.
I should tell you that I just recently started playing steel string guitar after playing a nylon string one for many years, so when I'm doing bar chords (which this song had during the whole thing and the damned thing was 4 minutes long) its really hard for me to play without my hand cramping up and the strings getting that sort of tingy sound from not being pushed all the down to the fretboard. I think thats were the clipping probably happened, during the moments of hand fatigue.
My question is:
I'm wondering if there is a way to use some kind of limiter plugin in ntracks that I could use during recording. If I used it after recording, the pops and clicks and bangs would still be heard I'm sure. So, aside from buying a new compressor/limiter, is there a way to use a possible free plugin that could be used during the actual recording in ntracks, or will plugins only work when you have an actual .wav file?
I should tell you that I just recently started playing steel string guitar after playing a nylon string one for many years, so when I'm doing bar chords (which this song had during the whole thing and the damned thing was 4 minutes long) its really hard for me to play without my hand cramping up and the strings getting that sort of tingy sound from not being pushed all the down to the fretboard. I think thats were the clipping probably happened, during the moments of hand fatigue.
My question is:
I'm wondering if there is a way to use some kind of limiter plugin in ntracks that I could use during recording. If I used it after recording, the pops and clicks and bangs would still be heard I'm sure. So, aside from buying a new compressor/limiter, is there a way to use a possible free plugin that could be used during the actual recording in ntracks, or will plugins only work when you have an actual .wav file?