crackle

gerky7518

okay, im mixing a song together here,,,iv got a piano track and an acoustic guitar track,
play the piano on its on it sound great, nice and clear, nice sound,,
play the guitar on its on its also nice and clear, nice tone and soound,
play em both together and i get this crackle!

i have put compressors on aux tracks with piano in one aux and guitar in the other,,,iv made sure theres no clipping with the sound hitting red but for some reason i get a crackle when they are played together

help?

PMI

Give us a rundown on spec.....

PC or MAC, what audio interface etc... sample rates, buffer sizes etc..etc.. and we will help ya find the prob

gerky7518

PMI wrote: »

Give us a rundown on spec.....

cheers

PC or MAC, what audio interface etc... sample rates, buffer sizes etc..etc.. and we will help ya find the prob

pc, m audio mini interface, sample rate 2048 h/w buffer size (pro tools setup)

its just annoying they both sound fine but put together its like theres clips

teamdresch

Turn on pre-fader metering and see if you can find clipping on any of the channels, auxes or plugins.

gerky7518

teamdresch wrote: »

Turn on pre-fader metering and see if you can find clipping on any of the channels, auxes or plugins.

hmmmm nope cant see anything, no red lights on any of the tracks or aux
messed around with eq's a bit there, helped a bit but didnt sound as good ha, so went to previous eq's again

teamdresch

With pre-fader metering on?
Do you have a master fader?
Have you checked the plugin meters?

gerky7518

teamdresch wrote: »

With pre-fader metering on?
Do you have a master fader?
Have you checked the plugin meters?

ah, turns out i deleted my master fader by accident ha,
emm yeah, retard of the year award goes to me lol

cheers, prob be here for a while if i didnt realise i didnt have my master fader there still,

that seems to have orked now, bit of compression, bobs your uncle

cheers again

PMI

gerky7518