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  • AudioBox vsl1818 Recording Clicks

    November 27th, 2012
    music, sound, tech, vsl1818
    A few weeks ago I wrote about my new audio interface. Since then I've used it to run sound at two dances, and it's done what I wanted it to. I've also tried to use it for recording, however, and am much less happy. I keep getting clicks in the recording. [1] For example:
    click1.wav
    Zooming in on the audio it looks like this:
    That's three tracks of audio and one track of nothing, showing a single sample out of place.

    I made some more samples:

    clicks-verylong.wav
    Looking at these I thought I saw a pattern: for a few samples in a row the sign is reversed. It's hard to be sure, though, with this setup. So I tried a higher pitch sine wave and put the mics at different distances so they'd have phase shifts relative to each other. Sure enough, some glitch is flipping the polarity:
    high.wav
    (On track 1 two samples are flipped while on tracks 2 and 3 three are. On all the others I looked at the same number of samples were off on every track.)

    What would do this? I don't know. I've posted on the presonus forum; we'll see what they say.


    [1] While I noticed them whatever I was doing, I decided to make a test setup so I could really see what was happening. I had my phone generate a sine wave and pointed three microphones at it. I restarted my computer (a mid 2011 13" macbook air on 10.8) so it would be fresh, started VSL (1.2.5296), started Audacity [2], and set it to record all 8 tracks.

    [2] I also got these clicks when using Presonus' Studio One, but I'm more familiar with Audacity so it was easier to take screenshots and make clips there.

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