Hey Chris. It's not the result of 3rd party plugins. There are none in use when this is occurring. It also doesn't happen in Logic. I've been recording and mixing an album for someone on this same Mac in my studio for the past month and I have no issues in Logic. I haven't tested Resolve because I only occasionally use Resolve for color grading, not for editing or audio. I've been using Premiere for nearly 7 years now and don't recall ever experiencing something like this until using this version of Premiere on this Mac. It consistently occurs when using Premiere's built-in Denoise or Dereverb effects (which is consistent with what was reported in the original "blown speakers" article, mentioning it was often occurring when people were using Premiere's audio restoration plugins). Usually it's just a short burst of noise like in the YouTube clip, but there have been a handful of times when it was persistent for as long as a sequence was playing. It is quieter if I turn my speakers down, so it's a glitch that is contained within Premiere, not something that's bugging out my entire system. But it is far louder relative to the volume of anything else, enough that it was startling and was making me concerned it could cause damage to my speakers (before I ever saw reports of other users having their speakers blown). Might be worth noting that I'm using an external audio interface with studio monitors. I haven't wanted to risk testing it out with the Mac's internal sound card and speakers. I now know this doesn't resemble the exact same problem that people are reporting on the Macbook Pro. But I think it's indicative that there are potentially numerous audio glitching issues inherent in certain NLEs on T2 Macs. I've reported my particular situation in the fullest detail I can and probably don't have much more to contribute here. So I'll wish the rest of you the best of luck and sign off. ... View more

Given lots of other people are having other sound related issues on 2017 (T1 Chip) and 2018 (T2 Chip) MacBook Pro's - and as far as I can tell, they're all using Mojave - I think something is still fundamentally broken in macOS, or the firmware driving the System Management Controller (via the T1/T2 chip). The question is... is anyone on this forum that has issues NOT running Mojave? That's what I'd like to know. So if there are any affected users *not* using Mojave, post your About This Mac screenshot. I'm still running High Sierra on an iMac Pro (I always wait a minimum of 6 months before I update to a new version of Mac OS). I posted my system screenshot and a youtube clip earlier in the thread. I don't know if the specific thing I've been experiencing is the exact same as others (mine is loud bursts of digital distortion that occur when using audio restoration effects), but there are at least similar audio glitch problems occurring in High Sierra on T2 Macs, not just Mojave. ... View more

Thanks Matt. I was quick to cast all the blame on Adobe but sounds like the T2 chip is the common thread in all this. ... View more

Hey Matt and/or Isaac T.​ For me it happens on any project in which I'm using the new Denoise or Dereverb effects on an audio track. Doesn't matter if I have any other applications running in the background (I usually don't). It consistently happens at the start of the sequence whenever the playhead reaches the first audio clip on the track containing the denoise or dereverb effect. It's a loud burst of digital distortion, not a feedback loop. Since updating to the latest version of Premiere, it's been occurring on every project I can recall in which I've used one of these effects on an audio track. I use an iMac Pro with a Universal Audio Apollo thunderbolt interface. You can check out the short screen capture clip below ( loud sound warning... obviously ). ... View more

I hadn't read about it happening to Resolve users as well. That complicates things I suppose. All I know is it doesn't seem to be an issue with only one operating system or line of Mac computers, and I never had this problem until updating to PP2019. ... View more

Regardless of where exactly the problem is coming from and who's responsible to fix it, here's a simple safeguard for those who haven't yet had their speakers destroyed by this glitch: whenever you start a new project, just throw a hard limiter effect on the master of the audio track mixer and set the maximum amplitude to -6 (or whatever level you prefer). The lookahead on the hard limiter is already set to 7ms by default, so it will catch any sudden bursts of noise and smush them down before they can ruin your ears or hardware. It's dumb that we should have to do something like that to avoid having our equipment destroyed by our editing software... but it's at least a really quick and easy thing you can do until the problem gets properly addressed. ... View more

I have 2017 hardware running High Sierra and I've been experiencing similar problems. It's not exclusive to just one hardware line or OS. Like I said in my comment above, I don't believe it's an Apple problem. it's a glitch in the latest version of Premiere that is Adobe's responsibility to fix. ... View more

It's not exclusively a MBP issue or a problem with Apple's internal sound cards. Adobe is entirely to blame for this one. I use an iMac Pro with a pro-grade thunderbolt audio interface, and I've been having the same thing happen since updating to PP2019. For me, it's usually when I'm using one of the audio restoration effects like Denoiser or Dereverb on an audio track. If I start playback from the start of the sequence, as soon as the playhead hits the first audio clip in the track containing the effect, I'll get a very loud burst of digital noise. Usually it's solved by disabling the Denoiser or Dereverb. However, I've also experienced occasional instances of continual distorted noise during playback, even when an audio restoriation effect wasn't in use. I tried disabling the audio input in the hardware settings like one Adobe support person suggested, but it didn't fix anything (because it's clearly not an audio feedback loop, its some kind of crazy digital distortion). It's on Adobe to fix this before it destroys everyone's speakers. They really need to stop focusing on what new features they can pile on in Premiere and just spend a year or so fixing their shit to make it more stable, reliable, and functional across the various OS and hardware platforms. ... View more