Clicks between joining loops

[BarryLegg]

Hi there,

 

I searched but couldn't find anything particularly relevant, so please forgive me if this is covered elsewhere.

 

So, I have a guitar part playing on the beat over four bars. When I duplicate this part and arrange them one after the other, there's a horrible and very noticeable 'click' as the playhead goes over the join.

 

But here's the weird part - when I loop the total 8 bars, the click occurs in the join in the middle, but not when the playhead loops from bar 8 back to bar 1. What gives?

 

Weirder still, there are two separate guitar tracks and they both have the click at the same point, but again - not when the selected region loops back round from bar 8 to bar 1.

 

I've done this a hundred times, and never had this grief before.

 

Any help would be gratefully received,

 

Kind regards,

 

Barry.

[Dave Regolith]

Can't give a definite solution, but I've had something similar with strange pops appearing on audio tracks that I'm certain did not happen during recording - ie they somehow happen afterwards, usually right on a barline/join between samples.

I just do either a tiny fade-out over a fraction of a second to nuke it, or redraw the waveform to get rid of the blob in it.

 

If it's not the same thing you have though I've got no idea sorry!

[David Nahmani]

Barry, I would also just add crossfades or fade-in/fade-out at the junction to make the click disappear.

[danyg]

another possibility:

flex markers and flex tool in combination with fades also cause clicks