Notebook adding clicks

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I'm trying my first digital home recording to capture my sons' piano recitals. I'm using my notebook computer to record througha USB mixer and am recording clicking sounds that apear to be the seeking of hard disk as it writes. Anyone know how to stop this?

Here's my set up:

Baby grand acoustic piano
Sincle Octave MK 219 mic (recording a single mono track)
Tascam US 122 mixer
Dell Lattitude D600 notebook
Using the bundeled Cubasis VST
running in XP Professional
on Pentium 4 1600, 512 RAM, 30GB HD 82% free space

There is no built-n mic on the computer and it is not coming through the Octava because I have moved 20 feet away from the mic.

Result is pretty good quality reproduction except for this intermittent but continuous click-click that seems to match the periodic movement of the hard disk heads. This is part of the digital recording because it also can be heard when I play the file back on my desktop computer.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Don
 
First I would try defragging the HD if you havn't already, and try to record again. If it still doesn't work....

Do you know what speed your HD is running at? If it is under 7200 it is likely to cause problems. Digital audio files are very large and it is tough for one hard drive to be reading from a drive while trying to write a very large audio file to the same drive.

If your HD is 7200 or better, then it should be able to handle a track without trouble but since you can seem to tell it is the HD then if I were you I would look for an external drive that you can hook into your laptop to burn the audio file to. Reading off one HD while writing to a second one is the best situation for recording digital audio.

Good luck. Maybe someone else has more suggestions.
 
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