Thanks you guys, I feel "hugged" with your warmth and concern.

Today, yet another day tearing my hair out---- I may have none left soon!! -- BUT I finally made real progress....


First the story........ Took it all to church and tested for pops/clicks. Got them. Checked the CPU latency and the pops/clicks coincided 100% with the latency spikes.

Pulled off every .exe (driver) in Task Manager that I dared to no avail - Yes Jim -- power management turned OFF, WIFI OFF, internal mic OFF, everything I can think of OFF -- and still spiking.

So.
Cried.

Sat there thinking.

Thought, I should try a different Fast Track driver, I haven't done that yet. Came home (no wireless @church).

Ate a cookie. And lunch.

Uninstalled the Win 7 driver.

After a couple of attempts found a driver that would install under Windows Vista x64 Compatibility.

This one already runs better.
Some of the buttons I couldn't push before and have the mic work, now work.

At 24-bit and 48000 Hz I had problems with the mic suddenly going super-hot and clipping everything even on low gain.

Rebooted.

Test recording: CLEAR of pops and clicks. Gain normal, reacting properly.

Latency checker is still spiking all over the place (in fact worse) but I'm not GETTING the pops and clicks.

It still needs tweaking but it MIGHT have fixed it..........


Getting a bit of electronic hum (random) but not the random interference. PLUS this is without turning off the Power Manager or WIFI and it's sounding all right so I'm encouraged.


Afraid to cross my fingers though.

Kids are out of school for the week so I'm done with "away" studio time till Monday.

Keep up the info on the portable-dealybobs, it's interesting.

Hoping that by posting all this trial-and-error I may help someone else out who's having the same problems.

I agree w/Jim though, what I've already invested in, I SHOULD be able to make work all right.

I can borrow the kids' Mac w/GarageBand for editing once I've recorded off-site and brought the tracks home (and once I kick off the 19-yr old who constantly inhabits it, LOL).


Thanks for all the moral support and excellent ideas and suggestions.


Mike, dude, get some rest! 6 AM!!!!!!!
smile



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