Clicks and pops when recording in ableton
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:37 pm
Hi!
So I've got a problem when recording in ableton. I use ableton 11, SSL2+ sound card, recording at 48k hz in ableton and using the same setting in windows, and an sm7b mic.
When I am recording, (perhaps also with electric guitar) but most noticeably when recording with a mic, I get these very noticeable weird clicks in my recordings which is super annoying. At first I thought it was only in playback but I have noticed that the clicks and pops are actually in the recordings themselves.
I have tried troubleshooting for a week trying many different things such as testing different xlr-cables, another sound card, different USB-port, condenser mic, different sample rates (128 and all the way up to 2048 samples), but I haven't found a solution to my problem.
It appears when recording in bigger projects but also in basic projects such as those with only 2 audio tracks, 1 for vocals and 1 for electric guitar. Sometimes I also get playback clicks and sound crackles in bigger projects (those artifacts sound completely different though), which is fine. More often than not I then just put the sample rate a bit higher and it disappears. However, I can sometimes get a few of those small artifacts in smaller projects as well, and I wonder if those are the ones that end up in the recording? I'm very sad because I always have to re-record a lot of stuff since the pops make a lot of my takes unusable.
I would highly appreciate If someone has any suggestion as to why this could be happening, any solution or perhaps have experienced something similar.
A sample of how it sounds: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
In this example, the clicks happened at the end of words but they usually pop up anywhere.
I'm on a desktop pc with windows 11, i7 12700k processor, rtx 3070, 32 gb ram, 2 tb ssd.
So I've got a problem when recording in ableton. I use ableton 11, SSL2+ sound card, recording at 48k hz in ableton and using the same setting in windows, and an sm7b mic.
When I am recording, (perhaps also with electric guitar) but most noticeably when recording with a mic, I get these very noticeable weird clicks in my recordings which is super annoying. At first I thought it was only in playback but I have noticed that the clicks and pops are actually in the recordings themselves.
I have tried troubleshooting for a week trying many different things such as testing different xlr-cables, another sound card, different USB-port, condenser mic, different sample rates (128 and all the way up to 2048 samples), but I haven't found a solution to my problem.
It appears when recording in bigger projects but also in basic projects such as those with only 2 audio tracks, 1 for vocals and 1 for electric guitar. Sometimes I also get playback clicks and sound crackles in bigger projects (those artifacts sound completely different though), which is fine. More often than not I then just put the sample rate a bit higher and it disappears. However, I can sometimes get a few of those small artifacts in smaller projects as well, and I wonder if those are the ones that end up in the recording? I'm very sad because I always have to re-record a lot of stuff since the pops make a lot of my takes unusable.
I would highly appreciate If someone has any suggestion as to why this could be happening, any solution or perhaps have experienced something similar.
A sample of how it sounds: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
In this example, the clicks happened at the end of words but they usually pop up anywhere.
I'm on a desktop pc with windows 11, i7 12700k processor, rtx 3070, 32 gb ram, 2 tb ssd.