Pops and clicks with my Scarlett 8i6 interface into cubase and reaper

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I have been fiddling for nearly a month trying to get a clear track recorded without pops in my vocal with zero success. I have literally done everything I have found to eliminate this issue. I have done all the optimizing techniques, lowered and raised the buffer size, I bought more RAM, The one thing I have not been able to do is the BIOS thingy to disable the Intel speedstep. I tried switiching from Cubase to REAPER because of the lower cPU usage with no success.

I am getting quite frustrated now and am thinking of downgrading to XP instead of 7

I am now running an sm7b into a focusrite scarlett 8i6 interface into an ACER aspire laptop
dual core intel i5 2.5ghz with turbo boost up to 3.1 ghz
8gb ram
750 HDD

Can anyone offer me any suggestions? Anyone figured out what to do in a similar perdicament?
 
I don't think it has anything to do with your computer.


What driver are you using?
 
do the clicks occur when youre not taking into the mic? is it clean silence if you dont have it by your mouth? sm7b shouldny have much mouth noise but it still can. ill tell you right now when i got a condenser mic i literally went back to windows xp, sold my preamp and audio interface for cheap, etc all trying to fix the pops and clicks i was hearing in my recording especially since i was actually having crackling for other reasons it confused me more. turned out i was making mouth noises. even with the mic feet away clicks were heard loud and clear. i could not believe they were coming from me when in fact they were, lol.

please get back to me on that if you hear the clicks when youre not talking into the mic. there are declickers out there that can be used as plugins

i used this in sony vegas
Sony Creative Software - Noise Reduction DirectX Plug-In 2.0

best thing you can do is just be aware of it and try to stop bad habits but some people do it regardless. having a sm7b is the best thing to stop that though funny if thats the problem

when i first got my quad capture audio interface i had a lot of issues with stuttering when i was recording causing all sorts of distortion. idk what it was i disabled my onboard sound card in the bios etc. something eventually fixed it. it only stutters now if i use fraps or bandicam in video games so i have to use hdmi out from my tv for windows sounds or the onboard soundcard when recording.
 
Scarlet 8i6 is a USB interface right? I've had some issues with the CPU frequency changing and various things going wrong.
In windows 7 you probably want to set yourself to the High Performance plan when tracking.

Google "windows power plans" for info (I cannot post a link yet).
 
Hey, highriser.
You've got some good advice here in this thread.

The only thing I'd add (if it hasn't already been said) is that you should upload an example so we know exactly what's going on.

Dreamcaseal and Crows are probably right. Your computer is more than up to spec, but you could still be having some incompatibility issues or something.
We won't know for sure until we hear what's going on.
 
Recording onto the laptops built-in drive????

They are slow and you are fighting the OS and apps needing to do other housekeeping chores.
Pops, clicks and DROPOUTS are common if the drive is too slow or doing other things
(and SSDs won't help you there, either...)

You should always record to a SECOND drive.

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Best setup for any daw:
OS, apps and plugs on boot drive
Sample libraries on a secondary drive
Audio tracks and projects on another separate drive
 
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