Whats going on everyone? So this has been plaguing me forever on Windows. My previous machine was a 5950x and now I have a new intel 265k.

Using the apollo twin x gen 2, when I only.open up console and listen through the headphones of what's going through the mic, it's completely smooth with no crackling. When I open up any daw (studio one pro 7 or cubase 14 pro) once I hit record or just monitor what's being recorded, if I sing some oooooooos into the mic there will be a crackling like there's an issue with latency or buffer. I've tried every single buffer size, 44 to 92, dropout protection off to maximum, and still no change. But once I'm not in the daw to record and just monitor through uad console app, there is no issue.

I've tried many other interfaces and still get the same issue. Now when I do the same process on my mac mini, this issue doesn't happen.

So for the ones recording on windows, is there something you've done or encountered this issue as well? I have all the c states and power saving things turned off in bios, have the power settings set to maximum, disk drives never turn off, already checked for latency issues and none there at all.

I just don't know what to do anymore.

i think you have changed the sample rate..not the buffer size....in my system i use a buffer of 256

have you set the option in windows system settings to prefer background services?..this is a big one if you havent

actually..mistake, i use 128 not 256...this seems to be the sweet spot to allow recording with a few plugins open

Yea i tried those also and still the same issue. The only thing I notice is when I try to change the windows settings in the sound menu, I can't change to anything and it's only option is 48, 32bit for recording and playback.

When i plug in the volt I'm able to change those settings to 24bit and the issue is completely gone.

And I'll try and see if the background services is on. I'll have to look for that and try it tomorrow when I get home.

I appreciate you.

Ayyyy just wanted to say thank you so much seriously. This was the issue I think because I'm not getting anymore of those crackling/pops in the recording. I really appreciate you for that. Thank you.

Happy to hear that.....these types of issues can really make for a bad day....happy recording