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October 27, 2021
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audio clicks during recording

  • October 27, 2021
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Audition is introducing audio clicks when I record a wave file. The recording starts out fine, then about a minute in clicks or hits start being introduced. This used to be a rare and intermittent problem for me, but now it's become an everyday occurence. I'm on a laptop with Windows 10. All other adobe products I use regularly-- Premier and Character Animator -- work very well on this laptop, so I know it's not the machine. 

Is this a setting or a latency issue I'm not understanding?

Thanks for any help.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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October 27, 2021

Can't even remotely tell without seeing the clicks in a file. If it's latency, then try increasing the latency value in Edit>Preferences>Audio Hardware and see if this at least alters the problem...

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johng90736739
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December 8, 2021

So when i increase the latency,  to like 400,  it got rid of 95% of the clicks but they still are there...    its very random and not sure what the heck to do about them now... 

 

 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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December 10, 2021

Hello,

I recorded a multi track session and did not experience any clicks. 

So what is the difference between the two? I assume now, after having had this experience, that using the Multitrack feature to record is the best practice? Even if I just need to record a VO? I typically do any mixing like adding music and sfx in Premier and would just edit the VO file in Waveform view before exporting it.

Thanks for your help. 


Using Multitrack to record is always best practice - It's direct to disk, so if anything fails, you don't lose everything up to that point - which isn't true of Waveform recording. Waveform recording records to a temporary file, and nothing is committed permanently to disk until you save the recording. Instead it sits in the temp file where, if the power fails at an awkward moment, you lose the lot. And you are at the mercy of whatever else is sharing your temp file directory, and that could easily be the OS - which has priority. To record successfully in Waveform view, ideally you need a separate temp file location which isn't shared with anything else - preferrably on its own drive (this is how it is on my DAW), and you need to set the computer up so it's optimised in other areas too. This is far less of an issue with Multitrack, which is designed to optimise everything to do with disk access - and that's really the best reason for using it.

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