Question

My setup:

Dell G7 15 Laptop (i7 core)

AudioBox usb (no longer officially supported, drivers up to date)

Akai MPK249

krk rokit 5s

Studio one 4 professional

MY DILEMMA:

I am recording some acapella stuff. I have no more than 15 audio tracks, and 1 instrument track (a basic piano) playing. I have all the vox tracks running through a bus with pro eq, compression, and room reverb. Sometimes after listening back to the tracks, this super loud explosion sound plays ( like really loud white noise). It fades away after 20 ish seconds. Both ears.

Answer 1

I Have the same problem!! I have a DELL G3 + Studio One 4. I`m starting to think it is the AudioBox USB problem....

Answer 2

I am really disappointed there is no answer to this question. I’ve had the same issue in the last day and the sound was absolutely devastating to my ears. How am I supposed to be able to trust the equipment not to ruin my dang ears? I can’t work without a solution.

Answer 3

I have the same issue. I get a horrible sound thru my monitors (no open mic's ) most of the way thru my project that sounds like digital distortion and is very loud and very horrible. I hope Presonus puts the answer here no matter what the outcome. - thanks!

Answer 4

I'd like to know the answer to this one, too.  I had it happen 2 nights ago - not only scared the living hell out of me (never had that kind of noise/volume blow up in my ears before), it probably inflicted some permanent hearing damage.  Ridiculous!  I literally am afraid to use the product any more as I can't afford to have my hearing further damaged.  Would someone care to explain?  And if i did everything using just monitors, then it would blow them up, too.

This is no joke!

Answer 5

This happened to me a few times too, it's very random. Some call it the 666  https://forums.presonus.com/viewtopic.php?f=151&t=8772&start=40
Presonus, this is unacceptable! It blew up my ears, speakers and headphones. 

My specs:

MSI Prestige 15
Windows 10
Focusrite Scarlett 3rd gen 18i8
Studio One Professional 5.3

i was using Komplete Kontrol, Izotope Nectar, and other plugins from SO.
I hope this is fixed, cuz even though I really like SO, I'm not willing to use a DAW that could damage my ears.

Best.