Getting poping noise when recording

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I have just recently started using cakewalk doing home recording. But when I started recording some audio tracks, I began to get some poping noise. Is this normal? Using DMAN 2044
 
Clipping will do that. Are you paying attention to your VU meters?
 
also, keep in mind what your recording, if your recording guitar then with the exception of a few hard strums you should have a pretty even signal and should clip reqularly if you go over your threshold. Vocals has about a gazillion things that will make you clip such as poppin on your p's to just too damn much pressure going into the mic. I'm not sure of what your trying to record but be sure you set your levels to actually playing conditions. I know lots of guys who just gently strum their guitar or finger pluck their bass as they set what they think is a good input level. When they press record they just go balls to the wall and clip like hell. If it's vocals, set your levels for the singing voice not just saying testes, one, two, three testes?? in a your normal house voice.
Can't say too much more without knowing exactly what your recording and when it's popping. Hope this helps.
 
I am willing to bet you are experiencing problems with the computers ability to get to recorded information to the hard drive.

If you are recording your projects to RAM, then when your RAM fills up, it must dump the contained information to a temporary file on the hard drive so that the RAM is free for more information. This WILL cause problems in all but the very fastest of systems, and even in those.

First off, verify that you are recording to Hard Drive. You software will have a setting somewhere that will give you this option. Next, make sure that you are not running screen savers, or any auto something or another programs while you are recording. This could include also any anto virus software if you are using any. They scan new files before they allow it to go to hard drive. Next, verify that you don't have something like a 1000rpm hard drive or something (1000rpm is an exageration, but you should have at least a 5400rpm UDMA 33). If the hard drive spins too slow, that will lead to problems.

I am sure that there are a few other things that could contribute to "popping" sounds while recording.

Tell me though, if you rip a song from a CD, does it pop too?

Ed
 
I have been trying to record directly from my keyboard into the sound card imput not getting the results that I thought I should get. The funny thing is that the volume coming back out in playback, does not seem loud enough. Also, when I try to adjust the volume levels during playback, I get a lot of scrathing type of noise. Does the fact that I have another Sound Blaster card installed in the system effect that? A person from Sweetwater told me that. Thanks for your help. I really need it ( first time user)
 
I just ran into a bit of this over the weekend ...

try defragmenting your hard drive with defrag or Norton SpeedDisk or some other utility. If the drive has to seek for fragmented disk space then it is the same effect as having a slow rotation time.

I cleaned up my disk and defragmented - no more popping!

BillS
 
Forgot about that one Bill, excellent advice!!! I beieve also that you can in effect accomplish the same thing if you have a partitioned drive, and move everything off of the partition you store you recordings on so as to empty it, then move them back.

Am I wrong???

Ed
 
Sonusman, it depends on what is on that partition. When you put everything back, it _should_ try to put it all in one chunk (a technical term), but depending on hidden files and virtual memory on that partition there may still be fragmenting problems.

I like using one of the utilities because I want to know where everything is...

BillS
 
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