One question for you followed by a possible solution.musicturtle wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:30 pmSeriously though...I went back into Cubse and the artifact wasnt there. So I did another mixdown and there it was. I went back into Cubase and I heard it, but only on the first playback, then it went away. I figured it was part of the clip, even though it wasnt a punch in, just a recording on a new track. So I re-tracked the part and the click still happens at the beginning of that wave clip. But only on mixdown.
A little frustrating to say the least.
Question: Do you have any plugins running while you track or post tracking that might have an aggressive response to a weird finger motion on your guitar strings??
Possible Solution: I am not entirely familiar with cubase and how it's track cross fades work but this video can walk you through it. What you could do (and what i do all the time no matter what) is set up that part to punch record a good 20 or 25 seconds before the part needs to get played as well as a good 20 to 25 seconds afterwards and once the performance is done and all instrumentation has ceased, and then just use a slow fade into the performance using the crossfade features. Even though you aren't patching two sections together, it will give you a nice transition in and out of the played portion.
Maybe you are doing this already? I don't know but i would start here if you are not.
I used to have horrible clicks and pops at the beginning and end of individually tracked guitar solos and all that went away when started using those little fades.
EDIT: also before cross fading i will shorten up that 20-25 second bits of dead space a little! I just use that to give the software, and all that plenty of time to think about what it's doing. in theory you should be able to chop that back to like three second and then fade into the performance.
