snap, crackle, pop my way to insanity

[gfermoyl]

the popping in my recording has been frustrating the production of my masterpiece for more than a year. i've completely rebuilt an entire system by swapping out new latest, greatest cpu, harddrive, and on and on to no avail. it's bringin me down.

i'm using Delta 66, cubase 5.1
AMD Athlon 1.66 GHz 480 MB or RAM


the problem does not occur if i record without anything else playing back. however, if i have the recorded drum track playing while i lay down the bass track, the popping cannot be gotten rid of. i've tried just about every possible permutation of buffer sizes, all of the different recording modes in cubase. i went to MusicXP.com and satisfied each of their list of many things to do to optimize for recording to no avail. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

garrett

 

[vestast]

How fast is your hard drive ? Do you have a seperate hard drive for your audio and one for your apps ?

If your using Cubase SX I think they recomend at least 512MB of RAM. Might want to upgrade that if you can.

Do you have the latest drivers from Maudio ? Are you using the correct ASIO drivers in Cubase ?

Not sure if any one of those things would cause you to have problems, but they might all contribute to it.

 

[Bass Master "K"]

When you export a mixdown, can you still hear the crackling when the file plays or is it gone?

 

[Codmate]

It sounds as though you need to specify an IRQ for your soundcard rather than letting Windows do it.

Follow the advice here about disabling ACPI:
http://goto.cream.org/blee

Are you using a VIA chipset? If so google for, and install, George Breeze's VIA PCI latency patch.

Do you have a dial-up modem? If so, remove it (and any other PCI cards) and see if the problem goes away.

I had problems with crackling initially (I also use the Delta66), but I moved the PCI card to a different slot and this solved it. This can sometimes be a quick fix if you don't want to spend hours messing with IRQs via the BIOS and Windows.