Hey guys, my band tried to record today on reaper, we hooked up a mic (as a test) into the mic input. With or without the mic in the computer, it continues to record a weird buzzing percussion sound. Its not loud, but persistant and the mic won't record either now. Any suggestions on what to do?

you have to connect the mic to the mixer then to take line out from the mixer to the sound card line in not mic in
if you connect to mic the recording will not be clear and clean /any way you need a mixer

Even when the mic isnt plugged in it still makes this sound though So we can't record anything Any other suggestions?

Does it sort of pulsate regularly, or is it noise now and then?
Could be the buffer size setting in yor ASIO driver maybe. If you set your buffer size too large to get lower latency you can get crackling noises (or was it the other way around? setting it too small?)

may not be the same thing, but at times I have had my projected seem to get corrupted somehow, and could not fix it. I would create a new project. could be a bug in the programming.

You have to set the input from your audio card to be recorder in reaper - the same line in input where your mic is plugged in.

Edit : Thank you Blindwillie! I tried this and it is now fixed! Thank you!

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I actually helped someone

It was working fine yesterday, and then I came back to record today and the crackling noises are back again I changed the buffering like I did yesterday but it didn't fix anything. Any other ideas?

It's definitely the ASIO driver issue. Try playing with your settings a little, and see if you can balance it in the right way.

I tried setting it to ASIO driver so I can change things and it says there is no ASIO Driver Could it have something to do with the fact that its Windows Vista?
PS I know the problem is with Reaper because there is no crackly sounds on Audacity, but theres too much latency More help please, you guys are being really helpful

Here's what it says when I go to ASIO driver

If your sound card doesn't have it's own asio driver then you should get asio4all. You can download that driver here http://www.asio4all.com/. If your sound card is asio compatible on it's own and has it's own driver then you're better off downloading that and using that one instead.


/Marcus

+ 1 for ASIO4all drivers. They are very stable and great.

From the screen shot SRV you haven't got ASIO drivers installed. As others have suggested if your audio card/device hasn't got (or isn't finding) the ASIO dll's then ASIO4All is your best option. However if your audio card/device has got ASIO drivers then use those as they'll be optimised for it.

Audacity will work as it uses MME and WDM but not, to my knowledge, ASIO.

If you need it you can find ASIO4All here.

Let us know if this works.
Cheer,s
Tony

Thanks everyone I'll let you know if it works