Crackling soundd when recording voiceover with USB microphone - I know PREMIERE PRO is the issue

[JA - Pesca]

Hello I have a Blue Raspberry USB miccrophone. I use it for live streaming and recording voiceovers. It used to work just fine, but today I tried to record some voice overs and the audio had this very noticeable crackling... I thought the problem was my microphone so i did a record test on a diferent pc (using windows 10 voicce recorder) sound was ok, no crackling, so I came back to my main PC did a test with windows 10 voice recorder, adobe premiere still running on the background, crackling sound again... Thought it might be a bad usb port, tried a different usb port... still crackling... then I tried windows 10 recorder but now this time without Premiere PRO running on the background... sound was good... Then i tried recording on Win10 recorder with adobe premier running but went in to the settings and set audio input to NONE and the the sound was good... So I am thinking Adobe Premiere is messing with my microphone somehow... The funny thing is that this was working just fine last week... has there been a recent update? Maybe this is causing the issue?

I know a work around would be to reocrd the voiceovers on WIN10 and import it to premiere, but I would preffer to doit in premiere, is way easier for the short parts where i need to add the voice overs. 

Any ideas how to fix this? Is this a known issue with my particular microphone? I would get a different microphone if that will fix it, but i don't want to buy a 150 USD microphone only to have the same issue... 

Hope you guys can help me

[Jeff Bugbee]

I can only imagine Premiere is defaulting to a higher gain than your other recording apps. Can you try adjusting/lowering Premiere's input settings to see if you can remove the crackle?

[Gerd5E26 · Accepted solution]

I may have found some sort of solution for this problem...

The voice-over function in Premiere Pro seems really handy for some quick soundrecording and editing directly in Premiere. But whenever an input device was selected (other than 'no input') the playback stuttered, jumping back frames. On top of that the recorded audio was higher pitched, just a little. The 'is that my real voice?' got even more eery...

Possible workaround: Preferences > Audio hardware > Settings button > Tab Recording > Select the mic > Properties > Tab Advanced : Lower the sample frequency and rate to "2channel, 16bit, 44100 Hz (CD quality)"

Did this work for you as well?

[blackburn.49963592]

it helped me, thx