Clicks when recording audio

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello everyone, please help me!

I am recording saxophone ensembles for my students. I usually make a metronome track and then record the different saxophones. I used to record on a desktop PC without any problems. Now I have moved to a laptop and have a lot of clicks in my recordings and don’t know how to avoid them.

My software configuration is:
Windows 11 home / Audacity 3.6.3

Hardware:
Zoom H8 recorder as audio interface (I replaced the USB cable with an expensive and very good one, no results).
HP Envy x360 laptop, with an Intel i7-1355U /1.70Ghz CPU
32Gb Ram

Any help will be appreciated, thank you very much!

Pablo

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Here there is an example of the “clicks”. They are in all the recording:

I’ve tried everything I have found with no results (closing everything, increasing buffer lenght, recording mono, etc.)

Thanks!

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The file you have attached is not playable. (WAV format is better than mp3).

4

Click removal did not work ?

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Effects>Noise Removal and Repair>Click Removal

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Hi Red_Pyro. Didn’t work, but I would mainly want to avoid the clicks at its origin.