Wave Shield Distortion

[AKSoapy29]

Hello, when playing some tracks, the wave shield distorts the music a little bit. I don't know if it is my file or the shield, but you will hear a crackly noise. Is there any way to fix this?

[adafruit_support_bill]

Is the noise always in the same place in the file? Or is it random?

[AKSoapy29]

Most of the time it is in the same place, but I know it isn't the audio file. I listened to it on my PC and there's no crackling.

[adafruit_support_bill]

Could be a bad solder joint somewhere, or just digital noise picked up from the Arduino.

[AKSoapy29]

Is there any way to fix it? Could it be that the audio file is maxed out? That is a good term for it, maxed out. I've listened to weather siren videos on youtube, and sometimes the microphone gets distorted or maxed out. I'll try and turn the volume down on the files, see if it helps, then turn the volume up on the Wave Shield.

[AKSoapy29]

It worked! I am going todo it a little bit more to all the files.

[i_dawn]

YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!

i spent an entire 8 hours trying to figure out what was creating that digital clipping sound. literally.
i tried to fix it on the software end, scripting end, hardware end.... i re-rendered things a million different ways a million different times... but I didn't think to stop normalizing all my files.

It definitely helps a bit, but...

some sounds seem to really bring the clipping out more than others. I can have some WAVS slammed to the max with bass and there is no problem. But as soon as I through a -10db reverberous string pluck or something on there it gets nasty with me. I just don't get it. Have you found the same thing?