Crackle/tinny sound when I record, no matter what hardware

[Thorrison]

Hi folks, 

I am at my wit's end here. I've never had this problem before. I'm trying to record, but for some reason the recordings are crackling and have a tin blip happening. It is occurring no matter what I use to record, from my Blue Yeti mic to my iMac built-in microphone. I can see a second line, below the main waveform, that seems to be picking up this problematic level. 

I've tried playing with settings, doing a system restart, and uninstalling and reinstalling and it is still happening. 

See attached example: (attachments corrupt, please re-attach. -Mod)

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

My goodness! I haven't seen that for a while! You've got the record level set so high that the peaks break through on the channel you aren't recording on. What you need to do is turn down the mic's level. How you do this rather depends upon whether it's a Yeti or a Yeti Pro. The Yeti Pro has an app with it, but if it's a basic Yeti, then you have to adjust the level in the Mac itself - Audition does't have anything to do with this. And since I don't have a Mac, I can't give you a step-by-step about that, I'm afraid, but there's a YouTube video that covers it - here. 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

The other thing that occurred to me is that basically this is a stereo mic, and you are supposed to be able to have some control over the pickup patterns. You appear to be recording in stereo (well, there are two channels in your recording, anyway) but the mic appears to be behaving nothing like stereo at all. However you look at it, there's a basic setting issue with the mic, I think - and for a single voice the mic should only really record on a single channel, and probably with a cardioid response.

[MikeHarrison]

As a Mac user since 1987 and audio pro since 1974, I'd like to try to help but, for some reason, clicking the link for either of the attachments (screenshot or wav file) just opens this same page again. Each link provides the URL:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/audition/crackle-tinny-sound-when-i-record-no-matter-what-hardware/td...

So... my apologies.

[Jeff Bugbee]

The attachments were 1KB ghost files, they were never uploaded correctly.

[MikeHarrison]

Thanks.