I've always mastered with my iMac (fabfilter/waves/izotope plugins) however recently got rid of it as all of my production has been on the Surface Pro since it's super portable. The mixes are clean when I export (no effects on master channel) however when I import the premaster back into Ableton and run it through my mastering chain I get a strange mid/high freq subtle crackling..
I've tried a ton of different mixes and masters, at first I thought it was a problem with the premaster.
The question I have is I'm not using an audio interface, just the standard headphone jack (lol) with beyerdynamic 770 Pro headphones.
I'm assuming it's a CPU/buffer issue, would using an external audio interface help clean things up? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Submitted January 24, 2018 at 10:18AM by illuzionsound https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7sn0d4/mastering_with_microsoft_surface_pro_4_strange/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, January 24, 2018