whitenoise during mixdown...

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nuclearfishin

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Hello all,

I am having a problem I can't seem to figure out. My recording sounds fine, however when I try to mixdown to mp3 or wav format (or any format), there is a split second of white noise added in at the beginning of the file. I am recording to a good laptop. Could it be the soundcard, and if so, how can I go about fixing this?

Thanks!

John
 
I can't really think of what would be causing this, but a workaround might be to have a second or two of silence at the beginning of your tracks ... that way once you mixdown, if the noise gets included at the beginning, you can cut out those first few seconds without losing any of the audio.

Are you using any plugins on the song?
If so ... try a sample mixdown without any of the effects added and see if you still get the same noise. If you no longer get the noise, it may be due to one of the effects being used reporting an inaccurate latency. If so, then you would need to systematically add each effect back in one at a time doing a mixdown after each one to track down the offender.

Other than that, all I can think is to add the bit of silence to chop off after the mixdown.
 
As recently mentioned here, maybe it's a consequence of having "Save extra non-audio information" ticked in the save dialog - try without it.
 
I've tried it all...

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I've tried everything mentioned and nothing seems to clear it up other than adding a couples secs of silence at the beginning and then going back and deleting it. It doesn't matter what type of sound file it is, it will be perfect and then as soon as I save it, it always adds that .5 sec of white noise at the beginning. I'm thinking there has to be something going on between the freq of the soundcard and the program, ie... soundcard in 16 bit, mixdown at 24 bit??? What does mapping through the soundcard mean? Can that have anything to do with it? I'm fishing now...

Cheers!

John
 
You shouldn't have "wavemapper" used as a device in options > device properties. Only have actual soundcard inputs and outputs selected.
 
whitenoise mystery solved!!!

Thanks ozpeter, your suggestion with the wavmapper fixed it. I don't know how or why, but as soon as I made my soundcard the first choice, everything cleared up.

Everything is good now, Cheers!

John
 
What's Wavemapper for, anyway? Why'd Syntrillium include it? Their target audience was homers and radioheads, but wavemapper seems designed for people who are in neither category.
 
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