Cubase crackling problem

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I am planning to record the school band soon, and I am using a Presonus Inspire 1394 into a school laptop. I don't know the specs for sure, but I can check later on. I'm also using two Studio Projects B1 condensers, and Cubase LE. The recording are not at all great, but my issue is with this constant clicking/popping/crackling noise also in the recording. I did a search and saw maybe it could be buffer size, but what should I set the buffer size as? Could it be something else? Any suggestions would help greatly.

thanks

ps...here is a link to a test i ran, so you can hear what I am talking about.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6rx7kr
 
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you may also need a hard drive dedicated to the recording... if the computer needs to access the program itself while recording is going on it will interupt the recording giving the prog the preference... make sense???
 
fire-wire card - possible

1394- in my experience the most common issues for the snap crackle pop is in this order:

1. M-audio's bad software design (i know your using a Presonus Inspire, i just thought I’d bag M-audio for all the stress I’ve been through)

solution check that you have the absolute latest driver.

2. dementedchord - the hard drive or the buffer issue.

solution select the soundcard controller/manager increase the buffer sample rate, also make sure your hard drive is up to the task and you have the RAM.(to test this just record one track with no fx, if the crackle is still present it is likely NOT your hard drive unless you have a pretty old machine.)

3. the 1394 fire wire card and / or the fact that your 1394 card happens to be the dodgy one that came with your motherboard (for some reason the IRQ just does not like this kind of personal audio dedication)

get a dedicated card (this is most likely the problem, in my experience.)

hope that helps.
 
fire-wire card - possible

nothing more to add here ...
 
I have to go with dementedchord on this one. Most pops and cracks are from system interrupts. A second hard drive dedicated to just audio is the solution. It could be your buffer size but I doubt it. To increase your buffer size just record at a higher sampling rate.
 
hm..makes sense. Thanks for all the tips, I will try them out.
 
also, it can't hurt to defrag your drive, increase ram etc.
 
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