digital clip problems

[jimidalliance]

Hey, I think I remember this coming up before, but I can't find the thread.

I'm getting a kind of digial clip or click during playback. At first I thought it was just my dodgey monitors but when I bounced it to a cd they were still there!

Any ideas?
Cheers

[PhiDelta308]

umm...well, it could be number of things.

Most likely you're clipping somewhere in the mix. Maybe a track, maybe the master fader. It could be some sort of a clock mismatch.

Post a little more info about the problem and people here will have a much better idea of what's causing your clipping.

-chris

[filosofem]

Check your mix, your Audio tracks, AUX, Sends, check your Master and all your plug-in I/O's.


filosofem

[jimidalliance]

ok, well none of the tracks, sends or master fader are clipping, ie nothing is going into the red.I have loops on some of the tracks but on each 'joint' I have a cross fade. The clicks don't just sound during these loops and when I solo each track individually they appear on each of them!
I don't have any midi tracks, just mics and lines in (guitars from pre amp). In some places it is quite constant, kind of like a clock, but mostly it is irregular! Thats all the info I can think of!

Please help!!!

[filosofem]

jimidalliance

when I solo each track individually they appear on each of them!

Have you recorded anything else, since the last recording, when you discovered this noise? What I'm saying is, maybe you had captured this noise. Have you tried re-recording one of the piece's, to eliminate this possibility?



filosofem

[jimidalliance]

Yeah I tried that but its still there!!

[filosofem]

ok, well none of the tracks, sends or master fader are clipping, ie nothing is going into the red.I have loops on some of the tracks but on each 'joint' I have a cross fade. The clicks don't just sound during these loops and when I solo each track individually they appear on each of them!
I don't have any midi tracks, just mics and lines in (guitars from pre amp). In some places it is quite constant, kind of like a clock, but mostly it is irregular ! Thats all the info I can think of!

Please help!!!

What pre amp are you using and with what Digi hardware and software? You say that this noise is irregular so on each playback this noise will be heard in different positions throughout the waveform?

Sorry, yet again I don't have a solution for you, just narrowing down some the possibilities.


With any luck Rail might latch on to this one.




filosofem

[Sparky1]

Hey there.

I had a similar problem - in the end - one of the factors causing this clipping was the external hard drive.

Switched to a different hard drive - the problem went away...

SparkyCanada

[jimidalliance]

the pre amp i'm using is a behringer v-amp with PT 6.4 on a 002rack.

When I say the clips are irregular I mean that its not constant like a ticking clock, but it stops for a while and restarts, sometimes its louder than others, but they are in the same positions on each playback...i think

I hope its not my exterenal drive!!

Cheers for the help so far.

[filosofem]

jimidalliance

Switched to a different hard drive - the problem went away... SparkyCanada

Have you tried what Sparky has suggested, even if it is your Operations Disk. Your not looking for sound quality here, it's about a process of elimination.



filosofem