Clicks and Pops

[blackcountrypodcasting]

Hello everyone...great site very interesting.

My name is Laurence Hipkiss (Lozz) and I have been home recording for many years. A few years ago I built a project studio in my garden (cos my young son needed the bedroom I was in and so I had to move out). You can see a photo of the outside of the studio at Page Title.

I record mainly acoustic music and a weekly podcast show Blackcountrypodcasting.com.

I have a problem with my Intel Mac regarding power spikes and clicks and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on it.

I have just bought a RME Fireface 800 to use with my Mac and I have decided to finally start to use Logic Exprerss 7 which I have had for ages but never used. Previously I have been using a Mackie 24 track hard disk recorder.

When I hooked up my RME and first opened Logic to transfer some analogue audio from my Mackie I noticed "spikes" appearing on the armed tracks in Logic (no audio was present). These clicks (spikes on the screen) happen about 2 or 3 times every minute.

I have used my project studio for about 5 years and never noticed any problems with mains power before when using the Mackie and even when I used Garage Band on the Mac all seemed OK.

Can the only answer be power spikes....or do firewire interfaces cause trouble of this sort (I've never owned one before...previously I have used a Tascam US122L).Or could it be something else.

I'm pretty sure I have everything conigured right plus all the latest drivers. My Mac is running with a 3ghz dual core and 4 gig RAM so latencty is unlikely to be the cause and anyway I have tried various settings.

Anyone any thoughts?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Lozz

[blackcountrypodcasting]

If anyone is interested I thought I would report back that I may have solved the problem in a very simple way.

I have now (finally) plugged the RME into the firewire port at the back of my Intel Power Mac and it seems the problem has gone away??

Does this make sense?

I know G5's had probs with front firewire ports but I didn't know Intel Macs had it too.

Anyone had a similar experience?

Thanks

Lozz

[brandondrury]

I'm glad you worked your issue out!

Welcome to the forum.

Brandon

[blackcountrypodcasting]

Thanks Brandon

Lozz