anyone ever had mysterious Click/timing issues?

[stephen duffy]

I have this one track that's causing us so much grief..the drummer came in and laid down a nice laid back groove to a click.. but over the next few weeks as i got ready to mix the tune it seemed like a lot of the beats were out of time and the more I LISTENED to it the more I figured we must have been smoking crack when we cut the track.. so we cut it again.. to a click.. measure by measure until it was so tight it hurt.. a few days later we're getting ready to lay down the bass and lo and behold the drums are all over the place.. and seem to be different each time a open the track.. not a lot out but enough to where a bass player couldn't play to the track because it's not in the pocket.... i swear we have a policy of no drugs or alcohol when recording but something is going on..
any thoughts..
cheers
stephen

002r l PTLE 7.1 l G5 2.5 l octopre l 4 gigs ram l

[ScratchDee]

do you have any plugs that cause latency on the master or drum-bus?
I figured out that a waves L3 adds 3528ms of dly. I made it inactive during
record and everything comes out tight.

[tele_player]

Maybe you mean 3528 SAMPLES of delay?

[ScratchDee]

of course

[ricupad]

Every now and then I have a problem that tracks get recorded late. I trash digi databases and preferences and then everything is back to normal again.

As far as the digi click plug-in goes,I don't trust it anymore. Since upgrading to PTLE7, I get 'hiccups' with the click playback when, for example, scrolling or opening plug-in windows. I feel more secure with the timing just dragging a wav. sample from the browser to a tick-based audio track and making a click track with it.

R.