What I found is that while you can get great measurement results compensating exactly what is measured on a specific rig and get a nice flat line on that particular setup with the exact same headphone on rig position it will be off when measured on any other rig as well as on any other head. I'll be soon using a hardware synth and would like to record it within ableton, this would be a pity if I couldn't do it.I have been EQ-ing headphones long before the digital variants existed. If it happens with vinyl ripping, this might happen with any other source. Just wanted to share my experience here to see if other people is experiencing the same kind of problem. This probably come from or my OSX version or ableton, if audacity is working perfectly fine with my setup.įYI : I'm running latest ableton version 10.1.30 on macOS High Sierra, Intel Core i7, 16Go RAM. I've been using Audacity for a few recordings since I was not able to solve this issue with different parameters, and never had this problems, all of the recordings are super clean. I'm saying crackling, but It would be more appropriate to say that at these moment, It's like the sample rate is passing from 44k to 1k for a few seconds. It never happen twice at the same place of a same track. Once the gain adjusted so it never clip and remain between -1dB and -3dB (in ableton audio track), I start my recording : ALL of my recordings are crackling in a very harsh way in some part of the records, not even the louder parts of the records. The audio interface is then plug by USB to my computer. To proceed to the recording, I plug into my DJ mixer A&H Xone 23 a decent quality cable (Cordial) that is connected to my audio interface in both left and right entrances. I'm experiencing the same kind of problem : I am currently ripping some of my vinyls so I purchased couple month ago a brand new audio interface (Motu M2). As you can hear, the crackling sound only appears in the audio file named “48k in preferences”. Then I switched the sample rate to 96k in preferences and exported the guitar recording. Then I switched the sample rate to 44,1k in preferences and exported the guitar recording. In the examples that I'm attaching, I recorded my guitar with a sample rate of 48k in preferences. Worth noting is that I never get any crackling sound on midi-tracks. I also sent ableton support a status report but they couldn't find anything that stuck out. I've also tried them out on a different computer with different cables but the problem still occurs on there. I've now tried 2 other sound cards out (from 2 different manufacturers), one of them being the sound card I was using before, and I now have the same problem with those sound cards as well.
However, this makes me think that the crackling noise is not within the recording itself.
But oftentimes, it appears again after some time. If I change the sample rate in ableton to a sample rate I didn't record the audio in (either a lower or a higher sample rate), it suddenly disappears for a while. If I loop the section where the crackling noise appears in, it can start crackling in different parts of the audio file and it sometimes disappears completely for a while. My crackling sound also appears in the recording when I export it and start playing it in a media player. It's not the crackling sound that happens when using a to low buffer size for the processor. When I record things like guitar, vocals etc, a weird crackling sound often appears when playing back the audio I recorded. I haven't experienced something similar before and even now, this problem only appears when using ableton and not other DAWS like cakewalk by bandlab. When I got a new sound card (SSL 2+), I started having a problem when using Ableton live 10 suite. Unfortunately they were not able to solve my problem but hopefully someone of you geniuses will be able to. So I reached out to ableton support a while back.