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short busting noise each time audio starts
Hello!
This might be a vague question but I'm wondering if some of your have experienced this.
I'm recently getting a very short popping/bursting noise in my headphones each time an app starts to use audio. For instance, when watching videos on my browser, I get this noise on each video start. Or when I use Piano motifs standalone, each time I hit play. Volume is low but it's noticeable.
It's as if the ipad is "starting the audio connection" and connecting my jack everytime . This won't bother me when using AUM because the "audio connection" is started once and then stays on, no matter which AUv3 I'm loading.
This is quite noticeable with cheap Samsung earbuds, less so with my Seinheiser ones.
Ipad 8th gen running 14.8.1
I'm just wondering if I need to worry about this and bring the ipad back to an Apple Center (and wondering how warranty works with Apple, this is my first time buying their products).
By the way, I'm also getting a very low buzzing sound (~60Hz or so) in my headphones (since day one) when my iPad is plugged into the wall socket and charging, and I can feel a little vibration (very low Hz) around the iPad connector. From what I've read, this can happen if electricity is not so well implemented in your house which could be the case in my old building.
Thank you!
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I’ve been having this happen sometimes when I hit pause on a playing project in AUM. I get this slight pop, like a mic is being turned on/off or something but I’m not using a mic. It comes through the iPad speakers. I’m on iOS 15.1. Not sure what’s going on…?
Yes, it is most likely bad power. You can easily test this if you have a battery bank you can plug in instead of the AC power.
It can also be the charger.
Maybe this is because the played sampled goes back to 0 abruptly rather than fading out quickly?
In my case, it's actually like when playing a vinyl, when you put the needle on the disc. As if my iPad is like "Now initializing audio.. and go!"
Thank you! Yes that is write I forgot to write that on USB battery pack, I don't get this issue.
Yeh, so that leaves the wall power, the charger or the cable. Probably the power, unfortunately. There are things you can try to do to mitigate that, but honestly, I've been plagued with bad power most places I've lived, and I've never been successful. I use a battery bank whenever playing guitar or recording if I need power. It's totally silent then.
Thanks! Yeah I never use it for sound production when it's connected to the wall indeed and keep my powerbank close!
Although my popping sound problem happens independently of this but it seems that not many users are getting this. Hmmm. Wondering if I should send it for repair.
Well it doesn't seem to be a faulty earphone connector on my iPad: I've just tried to plug it to my external Focusrite soundcard and guess what? Same popping sound on the soundcard when launching / quitting an audio app. Looks like it's software based then and maybe related to the OS. Interesting!
This is just speculation, but at low level software becomes instructions physically carried out by hardware. If the power isn’t completely smooth (especially the 0v reference) it could introduce noise when, say, clearing an audio buffer before writing the first valid audio data into it. If there’s random data in the audio buffer when the audio output routines are activated, that might explain the audio burst you hear. Same if an app clears the buffer before quitting and deactivating the output routines.
Very interesting idea, I can understand that. Thanks!