When I try to record my guitar through my interface (Tascam US16x08) I get signal in the program (ProTools), but every
now and then it clips/gets a system overload (only in the program), leaving the recorded track useless, due to the clipping
in the signal itself. For a long time I thought it was my interface, but I think it's my computer (which I bought on my audio engineering teacher's recommendation). It's the strongest computer I've ever had and I'm really pissed it doesn't work as it's supposed to.
Specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
8GB of RAM
Enough space on the harddisk
I saw someone having the same problem, who fixed it with flipping a small switch in the SATA thing in the computer itself. Could that be it? I can upload a video to youtube soon and link it, so you can see what's happening. Only in the program's system-meter/viewer it shows an overload. It's basically yoyo-ing between 5% and 100% with all the other cores being well below 6%
With mixing it's not a problem at all, can easily mix 30 different audio tracks and some midi as well, but recording 1 single guitar is a problem...
Help please?