Getting strange repeated clicking sound on all recordings! How to help?

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May 7, 2026
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Hello. I am a voice actor who records in mono with 4800 sample rate and a bit depth of 24. Lately I am getting am incessant click-click-clicking on all recordings! A noise reduction takes care of most of it, but I can still hear it at the beginning and end of pieces of vocals. I’ve tried rebooting my Macbook, rebooting Audition, unplugging and re-plugging all wires, and changing sample and bit rates. Nothing seems to work! I would ne greatly appreciative if someone could help he get rid of this problem. Thanks so much. I’m attaching a screenshot of the spectral Frequency Display so you can see a visual of the problem.

EDIT: I’ve just discovered that the problem DOES NOT HAPPEN when I use my laptop’s built in microphone!! My audio converter is only about a year or so old, the mic is about 6 years old

Rag and Bone

Community Expert

Shot in the dark:

What other USB devices do you have connected?

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

I’m presuming that you mean 48000 (48k)… but it would help if we knew exactly what external converter you are using, considering that this appears to be the source of the problem.

degiboxAuthor

Known Participant

Hi Steve. Yup, left off that last zero accidentally. So, I have PreSonus AudioBox 96 USB audio interface. Thing is, I have two of them and yesterday I hooked up my old one and still had the same issue. Now I’m wondering if the issue is my microphone, which took a spill onto the floor a few weeks ago when I was changing soft boxes. :-/

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Doesn’t really look like the mic is causing this… but you can check that quite easily. If you plug headphones into the Presonus and turn the Mixer volume to Input, and speak, do you still get the clicks? If you don’t, then it almost certainly isn’t the mic casuing this. Thing is, it doesn’t look quite like a buffer issue either, so we may have to probe a bit deeper. in the same breath, you have to bear in mind that the PreSonus AudioBox 96 USB is now a 25 year design, and that things (and drivers) have moved on a bit!

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