Clicks on export but not on playback

Discussion in 'Mixing and Mastering' started by Manolo P, Apr 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM.

  1. Manolo P

    Manolo P Newbie

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    Hey everyone, I'm having a problem on a mix that I can't fix. There's a click (not from clipping) in the same place every time I export or print my mix, but it's not there at all when I'm hearing it through playback on my DAW. I'm on Pro Tools. When I send the mix to a print track and input monitor it, I can hear it.
    I don't know what to do, because I don't understand where it's coming from. I checked all of my tracks and none are causing the clicking individually

    seriously going insane ‍♂️
    Fourth time I heard the click I was banging on my desk
     
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  3. Bahmanyar

    Bahmanyar Member

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    Change your Buffer Size to Max or 2048. It may solve your problem
     
  4. alexbart

    alexbart Producer

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    Hi, I'm not a Protools user anymore, but if you have already checked buffer size, sample rate issues(audio card sync, master/slave etc.), I would check for the bit depth of the exported mixdown, for example, if you are exporting the audio to a 16 bit file which is unable to keep the dynamic range of the internal floating point engine, it could produce clicks, or also, a plugin that is causing the issue when offline rendering.
    When you say:
    do you mean that this is happening in real time? In that case it could be related to sync issues, such as more than one sample rate master clock.
     
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