Hi,

Here's my problem: whenver I record vocals to a digital medium, I
always get these annoying artifacts - clicks and pops. AAARGH! They
seem to occur especially around "f" and "v" sounds.

Here's what I've tried with no luck:

- recording w/without windscreen, popper
- different mic preamps (eg, LA610 and Focusrite 430mkii)
- different preamp gain structures, w/without compression, EQ, etc
- different mic cables
- different mics (414, tlm103, etc)
- different A/D converters (Masterlink, MOTU HD192, etc)
- different AC (Furman PL-Plus, UPS)

What am I missing?

TIA

"Harry Houdini" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Here's my problem: whenver I record vocals to a digital medium, I
always get these annoying artifacts - clicks and pops. AAARGH! They
seem to occur especially around "f" and "v" sounds.

Here's what I've tried with no luck:

- recording w/without windscreen, popper
- different mic preamps (eg, LA610 and Focusrite 430mkii)
- different preamp gain structures, w/without compression, EQ, etc
- different mic cables
- different mics (414, tlm103, etc)
- different A/D converters (Masterlink, MOTU HD192, etc)
- different AC (Furman PL-Plus, UPS)

What am I missing?

Turning down the level so you're not clipping ? Or are those sounds really
there, and not being masked as they were with your previous medium ?

geoff

Hi Geoff,

Thanks so much for repyling.

These clicks occur no matter how hot I record. They're quite
definitely digital and *not* something that's occuring in front of the
microphone and visible under the computer DAW magnifying glass.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:35:15 +1300, "Geoff Wood"
wrote:


"Harry Houdini" wrote in message
.. .
Hi,

Here's my problem: whenver I record vocals to a digital medium, I
always get these annoying artifacts - clicks and pops. AAARGH! They
seem to occur especially around "f" and "v" sounds.

Here's what I've tried with no luck:

- recording w/without windscreen, popper
- different mic preamps (eg, LA610 and Focusrite 430mkii)
- different preamp gain structures, w/without compression, EQ, etc
- different mic cables
- different mics (414, tlm103, etc)
- different A/D converters (Masterlink, MOTU HD192, etc)
- different AC (Furman PL-Plus, UPS)

What am I missing?

Turning down the level so you're not clipping ? Or are those sounds really
there, and not being masked as they were with your previous medium ?

geoff

"Harry Houdini" wrote in message
...
Hi Geoff,

Thanks so much for repyling.

These clicks occur no matter how hot I record. They're quite
definitely digital and *not* something that's occuring in front of the
microphone and visible under the computer DAW magnifying glass.

So it's something to do with your specific analogue or digital chain. What
device is common given all the other things you've swapped around ?

Or is it a real sound that *is* there to start with ?

geoff

On 10 Feb 2005 11:10:03 -0600, Harry Houdini
wrote:

These clicks occur no matter how hot I record. They're quite
definitely digital and *not* something that's occuring in front of the
microphone and visible under the computer DAW magnifying glass.

What program are you recording into? Are you clear that level has to
be correct as the signal enters the computer. Any overload at this
point can't be corrected in software - it's too late then.