Getting A cracking

[cuttlefishcoin]

I am using Audacity 2.3.0
MAC OS 10.10.5

Everything is working in terms of the software performance besides the playback.

I have some terrible crackle in/ artifacts in the WAV files. I have ran through almost every setting. Including the latency settings. I think I messed up and kept the device at Core Audio when recording.

The audio files look clean so I am weirded out why they sound so bad with the crackle.

I hope this may help. I used a Behringer UMC 404hd, I do not have hooked in at the moment. Do you think if I go get the hardware I may be able to fix this or does this seem like I am doomed because I selected Core Audio instead of MME device when recording.
Everything sounded beautiful during the recording.
I hope this is familiar to someone on here.
Thank you so much.

[steve]

It’s normal for Audacity to use CoreAudio on macOS. Macs don’t have “MME”.

If you think you messed up your settings, Audacity can be set back to “factory defaults”. See: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/resetting-audacity/50613/1

[Jdm8286]

I am having the exact same issue. Were you able to find a way to correct it?

[steve]

I am having the exact same issue.

Not exactly the same. You have a different version of mac OS X, and probably a different version of Audacity. Please start a new topic and describe clearly, and in detail, what problem you are having, and include details of which version of macOS, and which version of Audacity.