Audio Becomes Heavily Distorted After a Few Seconds Using Scarlet2i2 & Electro Voice WS-PL2

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hello,

I wasn’t sure if this was a known issue. I just began encountering a problem recently where my audio would become extremely distorted after about the 40-second mark, immediately encountering a barrage of audio dropouts. If I then attempt to re-record a new track, the distortion begins much sooner - around the 2-3 second mark.

As stated in the subject, I am using a Scarlet2i2 with an Electro-Voice WS-PL2 microphone. I also encounter similar errors when attempting to record using this same setup in Quicktime. I was running an older version of Audacity when I first encountered the error, so I updated to the latest version and it presents the same problem.

Any ideas?

For clarity, here is a short video link illustrating the error:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ooY00Fd-4PYr_177qam5oBf-GKV0uD1s/view?usp=sharing

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Sean

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Try the steps in this FAQ.

However, since you have the same problem “recording in Quicktime” (how do you do that?), it seems this may be a system problem, not an Audacity problem.

– Bill

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“recording in Quicktime” (how do you do that?)

Quicktime 7? QT7 I believe is still available as a download and it had very serious talents beyond the current QuickTime Player.

Koz