Pops, clicks, buzz's in recording - Please help!!!

[mastac]

Hi, I have been doing some recordings and have been getting these pops/clicks/buzz's kind of thing - I don't know what the deal is. They sound like a problem related to the digital clocking or something. I have a sample of the piano recording that is suffering from it - and I still have problems every now and then - today I have trouble with vocal tracks that I am laying down.

Here is the piano track:

If you have heard the piano track from the one thread Piano recording using two MXL V67s, or somethin like that, this is the same piano player, except using a real nice huge Steinway piano in a nice room.

I really really need to figure out how to fix these pops buzz's. I can't figure out where they are coming from. Here is the signal chain:

V67 ---> Roland MMP-2 ---> M-Audio FW410 ---> Cakewalk Sonar 3

The Roland goes into the M-Audio FW410 via Coax digital with the MMP-2 as the master clocked at 88.2 KHz and the FW410 as slave. Interestingly - maybe someone can try this out, but when I try to EQ the pops and buzz's out, they seem to be unaffected by plugin parametric EQ's. Maybe I just missed the frequency or am not hearing it, but I pretty much swept it all the way through with a narrow Q value and high gain and the buzz's didn't change at all as I swept through the frequencies.

Please help me out!!!

Thanks much,
Craig

 

[ssscientist]

The Roland goes into the M-Audio FW410 via Coax digital with the MMP-2 as the master clocked at 88.2 KHz and the FW410 as slave.

Sounds to me like you may have an inappropriate - or just plain bad - cable going from the MMP-2 to the computer interface. Try that and see if it doesn't fix the problem.

 

[estring]

whats your hardware setup

 

[mastac]

Hardware Setup

My hardware setup is mostly posted in the first post. Here it is again:

MXL V67G ---> Roland MMP-2 Preamp ---> M-Audio FW410 ---> Cakewalk Sonar

I am running a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, which has Pentium IV 3.06 GHz and 1.25 GB of RAM. The recording was going to an external USB 2.0 hard drive. I am using Canare LV-77S digital S/Pdif cable - the highest quality stuff from Canare for the purpose and it is built well.

Besides knowing what is causing it, does anyone know the best way to fix/edit out the pops?

Thanks much for your help,
Craig

 

[ssscientist]

This track is toast. For the re-do, try doing as I suggested and making sure you have a manufacturer recommended and solid connection between the mic pre and the computer.

 

[ssscientist]

From now on when you're asking for help with something like this don't post the whole song - just pick the part that concerns you the most and post that. I have a dial-up connection here at home and it took me forever to get a listen to your problem...

 

[mastac]

Sorry bout that

Sorry bout puttin the whole song up bro - I just converted it to mp3 and put it up.

I forgot about the folks with the dial-up !

C

 

[mattamatta]

Dialup makes me want to vomit in my hands and slap my friend Vince in the face.