Recordings Riddled With Random Clicks?

Recently Marcus de Paula posted this:

I had a colleague record some interviews for me awhile back and his recordings were riddled with random clicks.

The cause was dropped samples due to his laptop not being able to keep up for 3 reasons:

1. Adobe Audition (his DAW) was set to a different sample rate than his audio interface, so it was transcoding the sample rate in real time.
2. His buffer size was set way too low in Audition. You shouldn’t need to worry about latency while recording, so there’s no need to keep your buffer size too low.
3. He had a bunch of other apps open while recording including Adobe Illustrator and Chrome with a ton of browser windows open.

Have you ever had to adjust these setting on your computer?

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