Post one of the clicks. Drag-select a portion of performance with some short spoken work and then a tick over silence.
File > Export > Export Selected as WAV and post it on the forum. Scroll down from a forum text window > Attachments > Add Files.
If you haven’t done that during any of the requests for help, then we’re just guessing at the possible causes.
I can actually hear them during the recording.
That’s significant right there. How are you listening? Headphones plugged into the Yeti Pro? That’s the only way you could listen to yourself during a performance (recommended) without computer delay or distortion.
That means the click is coming from the Yeti Pro.
It doesn’t have to be a broken Yeti. The Yeti gets its power from the USB connection and it could be responding to a ratty computer USB service. As I’m sure someone pointed out before now, Skype, Zoom and other services take over the computer when they work and you don’t have anything to say about it. If your voice is clean during a Zoom call, then Zoom is doing something special to the computer to get that result.
That doesn’t get us anywhere because Zoom computer changes can be extraordinary which is one of the reasons it’s difficult to record both sides of a Zoom call locally. You’re fighting some very talented engineers in the Zoom corporation.
I have been struggling with for years
That’s where we part company. I would be recording on a different computer or be recording my voice using a completely different system.
The Yeti Pro has an XLR connection on the bottom and will plug into any sound mixer or good quality, stand-alone sound recorder.
You don’t need to buy two computers. Borrow your mum’s machine. Audacity is free and it will tell you in one swoop if the machine is doing something to cause the problem. Even if it gets worse, that’s valuable to know.
There are oblique solutions, too. In the early days of The Yeti Curse problem, we determined that you could use a wall-powered USB hub and simply don’t plug anything into it but the Yeti. The Yeti family has had noise problems for years. We designed a software solution to that one which reduced the problem to a minor annoyance, but we also determined that the only sure 100% cure was change the computer.
Another sure cure version tells you to stop recording on the computer. I like my Zoom H1n recorder and there are people turning out good work on the other Zoom models. They don’t have computer problems because there’s no computer.
This is a workup on the Kitchen Table Sound Studio featuring my Zoom H4 recorder (now deceased).
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