# eliminate popping on rapid fire sound
**URL:** https://qa.fmod.com/t/eliminate-popping-on-rapid-fire-sound/11970
**Category:** Unity
**Created:** [June 29, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/eliminate-popping-on-rapid-fire-sound/11970 "2015-06-29T13:20:25Z")
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### Author:  [@mightypants](https://qa.fmod.com/u/mightypants)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/eliminate-popping-on-rapid-fire-sound/11970/1 "2015-06-29T13:20:25Z")
I’ve got a sound for an automatic laser gun, and when it fires in quick succession I get a small popping sound. Are there any tips/tricks to avoid this? I’m firing the FMOD event with soundEvent.start() and I tried adding a soundEvent.stop() (both with STOP\_MODE.ALLOWFADEOUT and STOP\_MODE.IMMEDIATE) before it it but that didn’t help.
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### Author:  [@mightypants](https://qa.fmod.com/u/mightypants)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/eliminate-popping-on-rapid-fire-sound/11970/2 "2015-06-29T13:22:52Z")
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> I’ve got a sound for an automatic laser gun, and when it fires in quick succession I get a small popping sound. Are there any tips/tricks to avoid this? I’m firing the FMOD event with soundEvent.start() and I tried adding a soundEvent.stop() (both with STOP\_MODE.ALLOWFADEOUT and STOP\_MODE.IMMEDIATE) before it it but that didn’t help.
I should add: this is Unity 4, Mac OSX.
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### Author:  [@nick1](https://qa.fmod.com/u/nick1)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/eliminate-popping-on-rapid-fire-sound/11970/3 "2015-07-01T01:19:34Z")
If you’re restarting the same instance over and over then you’ll get popping. If you’re laser gun event is a one-shot, trying using the FMOD\_StudioSystem.PlayOneShot() function to spawn separate instances.