Click noise in recording

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hello,

I’m a mom of 2 young boys who do voice overs. We have a Neumann TL102, a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen, and an Windows HP laptop. We use audacity to record. When I monitor the recording I hear everything perfect. Then, when I listen to the recording there are click sounds. It is not the playback since the sounds are also there in the mp3 files exported.
I tried changing the buffer from 100 to 150, closing all applications, keep the laptop plugged, but nothing seems to be working. Could anybody please help me? I can past screenshots of our settings and upload sample files with the clicks if that would be useful.

Thank you very much!
Best,
Mariela

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If the problem persists with Audacity’s free competitor
ocenaudio, then Audacity is not to blame.

OCENaudio can use ASIO via ASIO4ALL, standard Audacity cannot

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Hi Trebor,
Do you think it is worth it to download that application and try, just to isolate the issue?

Thanks so much!
Best,
Mariela

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OCENaudio is free, safe, fast, lightweight,
can communicate with industry-standard ASIO audio drivers.
It’s not as powerful an audio as Audacity,
but for voice-overs it may suffice if it solves the clicking problem.
If it does not solve the clicking problem then Audacity settings are not to blame.

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When you plug your wired headphones into the Scarlett?

After you did that, did you Cold Shutdown Windows? Shift+Shutdown > OK > Wait > Start.

Some applications can leave settings and drivers running after they shut down.

Does the laptop have more than one USB connection? Try both.

Can you try a different USB cable? That’s been known to cause problems. Some microphone interfaces come out of the box-new with a non-standard (too long) USB cable.

Koz

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