crackling.. is this usually a hardware issue?

[finalcut]

I have been tracking guitar tracks for the last few weekends on my days off, and I noticed crackling as I monitor my signal and also when I play back the tracks.

I can however bounce the tracks, burn them to an audio disc, and play the music on any player and the crackling is not there.

I have changed mics, cables, even computers, but I don't think any of that is the issue because the crackling isn't there when tracks are bounced.

The only thing I can think of is that it's my digi002 crackling as I monitor during recording and play back.

Is this a common thing that anyone here has heard of?

[t4d]

I get this sometimes too I have a delta Maudio 1010
mainly happens when I have alot of line 6 or guitar rig 5 plugins running


I get rid of the crackling by changing the sound card settings ( change buffer size etc ) or shutdown & restart PT


I got it less and less in the protool 9 cycle ,... but I just updated to PT 10 and BAM it's back ???

[digi003]

Protools 10 has some issues with buffering etc especially if you leave the buffer at 512.
It just dosent cope very well, the new PT10 update dosent fix it either.

[TCM]

Crackling can have several causes:

1. drivers
2. buffer settings
3. faulty hardware or cables
4. no separate hard drive for Audio
5. hard drive fragmented
6. ...

First I would try to find out the latencies of your machine:

http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon