Pops & cracks when burning

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I know this is not a question about burning original material to a cd, but I will be doing that in the future & this problem will probably effect the cd's I create then. My problem is that when I burn cd to cd on my computer (with store bought cd's that sound fine & their quality is great) the cd's I burn have pops & cracks almost like it were a vinyl record when I play them back on any system? Does anyone know why this is happening? I have a plextor 8/4/32 burner & the original discs play fine in both of my drives.
 
What speed are you burning the CD's at? 2X is recommended.

What is the source of the music you are putting on CD? Mp3 Sourced? Audio CD?

If its Mp3 sourced music, you could have problems with your MP3 to WAVE file converter.
 
Copy the CD to your hard drive first. Search "Exact Audio Copy" in this BBS, not sure which forum, there's at least one thread on this topic already.

Queue
 
Browse this article, its helpful in many ways...
http://www.drtmastering.com/faq2.htm#burntips
I have an aquaintence with a set up similar to Blue Bears and he told me once that some operating systems if do not work well with audio, that the clicks and pops are interrupt irq's turning on and off and doing their thing. He has a degree in computing science and works at nintendo and has pretty a pretty
good source for the root level problems with PC related things. Read the DRT burntips and see if that works. Windows 95 beta I heard is more music friendy.

Good Luck,
Dennis
 
Yo CHRIS-B:

I was just doing some reading on another site, a recording school site that offers information for FREE.

One thing just popped into my mind as I opened this thread. I was reading that if you don't have your word clock synced to the other digital gear, you can get "clicks and Pops" in your CD burn.

I don't know a whole lot about that but I was reading to learn since my Yam 2816 has a setting to set word clocks which, at the moment, I don't need with my set up of just recording and burning the CD all in the same unit. No outboard digital gear yet.

This is a bit over my my head as I'm learning but maybe Bruce can clear it up.

The only pops I want to hear are those when a cork comes out of a bottle of bubbly as I reach for "two" chilled glasses and watch my girl's eyes flutter.

Green Hornet




:D ;) :p
 
Hey hornet...

Is "word clock" your new panacea?

Either I'm imagining things, or you posted a very similar reply to another post...

I'm pretty sure this isn't a "word clock" issue.

Queue
 
speed can be an issue-so is CD quality

I think 2x is the best burning speed (I regret to say that cause many of us burn a lot of copies) - The increase in speed is a lot more useful for data then Audio burning.

And a burn from the HD is best...a CD to CD burn can have more problems...I've discovered...and I've also had problems with CD types in certain decks...In particular, the cheapo CompUSA disks suck for CD players...they begin distorting on my Truck CD and cheap roommate's CD player after a few plays...even though they sound fine on my walkman and the computer one.
 
Yo Gagediiemooojo:

No new buzz words really. The manual for the AW2816 has detailed words and photos about linking digital gear together.

I don't do that yet. So, all I was doing was really paraphrasing what I read as the words stated that gear not in sync will produce sounds you want to dump down the sink.

Let that sink in?

I think I sank.

Green Hornet:D :p :p
 
CRISB said:
I know this is not a question about burning original material to a cd, but I will be doing that in the future & this problem will probably effect the cd's I create then. My problem is that when I burn cd to cd on my computer (with store bought cd's that sound fine & their quality is great) the cd's I burn have pops & cracks almost like it were a vinyl record when I play them back on any system? Does anyone know why this is happening? I have a plextor 8/4/32 burner & the original discs play fine in both of my drives.
Click to expand...

Sorry this is a few days late but I had a similar problem with my cd burner in my computer. There are a lot of different things that can cause it, and burning speed is one of them. However, when people say burning slower speeds sounds better...that's a different situation. I agree slower speeds are higher quality but the pops and clicks I was getting were not just lower quality, they were very noticable and unacceptable.

I went to the website of the company that made my burner and updated the firmware for it. Since that day I haven't had ANY pops or clicks. So if you slow it down and it still pops and clicks you might try the firmware.
 
The older CDR units were infamous for pops and cracks exactly like you describe. The newer ones are better, but can still have the problem.
I assume your CD Burner is an IDE model. I recomend that you put the CD-Burner and CD-ROM reader on different IDE controllers. IDE controllers don't like to read and write accross the same bus at the same time.

As I've said in other posts, my prefered IDE setup for an DAW is:

Primary Master: Boot hard drive with OS and programs
Primary Slave: CDR burner
Secondary Master: Big, fast, data only hard drive
Secondary slave: CD-ROM or DVD drive.

With this setup you can dupe CDs or back up data files and each controller is either reading or writing, not both.
 
pops/cracks

to CRISB,
I have a lot of "cd drink coasters" from the same problem. I have a belief that there are some very definite correlations between recording speed, software, RAM, and hard drive speed when recording a CD. Once I increased ram, slowed down the recording speed to 2x, and copied from the hard drive rather than DVD to CD recorder, Bingo, no more clicks or pops. I did change to a 7200 rpm hd. I don't know much technically speaking, but these changes did absolutley stop the clicks etc.
Good Luck,
Che
 
it was mentioned before.....those COMPUSA discs sucks ass. I had a friend burn me a couple and they were cracklin like vinyl after the first play....actually during the first play. if this is the problem, well, simple solution. buy better cdrs.

Mike
 
Eh............ guys Did you notice something?
Someone asks a question .... everyone contributes to the answer, but the questioner is ..... gone ;)
 
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