Thanks for chiming. Re: headroom. The term eluded me, but it’s the hardware that I’ve recorded.
Re: the clip being cut off.
I’m aware how this tends to happen, and to address this as the potential issue, I’ve replayed certain bars where I first heard the click / pop, and I didn’t observe any anomalies.
As soon as I detected jitter, I cut the kick recording for two steps that visually line up on the grid, then pasted the kick drum sequence.
Will keep digging. Was just seeing if it was more than either the recording or something else (like sample rate).
The way you described it sounded like they appear in pretty much same places, intermittent or not that wouldn’t sound like a buffer issue to me personally. Of course, I might be wrong. But to me the difference is huge even in the sound itself. Phase issue sounds like a super short “tsap”, buffer problems are ugly and crackly.