DIGITAL GLITCH WHEN RECORDING

[NIC LLAMB]

HELLO. I AM EXPERIENCING DIGITAL GLITCHES AT RANDOM INTERVALS OF MY RECORDED MATERIAL.

I AM RUNNING AUDACITY 1.3.11 (unicode) BETA on WINDOWS 7
on a BRAND NEW GATEWAY LAPTOP that should have ample hard drive space, RAM, etc...

I use an M-AUDIO moble pre usb to record with.

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the glitches. They sound like very short (less than a second) digital clicks that interrupt the recorded audio.
The moble pre usb is relatively new (about a year old). I used it on my old laptop (sony vaio) without incident.

Is it perhaps a buffering problem? or a latency issue?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[steve]

It sounds like a USB issue. You're not using a USB hub are you? (USB hubs tend to perform badly with USB audio devices).

[NIC LLAMB]

Hey thanks for the reply.

I'm actually not using a usb hub on this... just plugging the usb straight in.
I actually tried changing the usb cables out, but got no results.
Any other ideas?

thanks for the help

[steve]

Check that you are using the latest drivers for your operating system (get them here: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MobilePreUSB.html )
Avoid running other programs in the background - especially anything that is CPU or disk intensive. USB audio is unlikely to run smoothly while Windows is updating, looking for updates, scanning for malware or other resource intensive activities.

[NIC LLAMB]

Hello<

I have spent some more time trying to come up with a solution to the digital glitch problem to no avail. I downloaded the most recent driver for my mobile pre usb recording device and I am running audacity with no other programs in the background. Frustratingly, I am still getting digital glitches in my recorded material that come in for a fraction of a second every 3-4 minutes and ruin my audio. Any other suggestions?

Thank You,
Chris

[kozikowski]

Can you see the clicks on the blue waveforms? Do the clicks always happen in exactly the same place in the performance when you play the show? Like there's always a click when the singer sings the word "you?"

Do the blue waves ever spike all the way up to 1 and does it click right then? It doesn't have to be a computer error. You can get clicking distortions if the show is too loud.

Koz