What're the best tools to remove recorded clicks & pops??

ontik · Post by **ontik** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 5:13 am

I've been given the task of cleaning up 4.5Gb's worth of dodgy Soundblaster Audigy recording of some DJ sets.

They are full of digital clicks.

I've used Waves X-Click & X-Crackle and these have really only taken the edge of and frequently left a dull but still kinda sharp 'pop' in the track. Although I'm still fairly impressed with what they have done. These recordings could destroy speakers in no time at all.

Anyone got any recommendations on some really tuff tools for the job??

There's just too much data to fix the wavs manually. It'd take me a year....

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 5:41 am

I haven't used it, but have heard good things about it:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/PRODUCTS/ne ... asp?PID=14

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 6:39 am

Steinberg's DeClicker (the expensive standalone, maybe a SonicTimework license) does a very good job and has settings against the artifacts you mention.
Very fast and straight forward = simple.

good luck, Tom

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 6:41 am

Osiris works wonderfully too but requires tripleDAT.

Retro · Post by **Retro** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 7:15 am

I've done a lot of restoration work over the years using Cool Edit (PC only). It leaves the plugins for dead. Check it out at http://www.syntrillium.com

w_ellis · Post by **w_ellis** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 7:21 am

I have to agree that Cool Edit does indeed have some great tools for fixing dodgy recordings. I re-did the sound for a film using it and was very pleased with the results.

ontik · Post by **ontik** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 7:48 am

Thanks guys

Shall try these suggestions and they don't help, nothin' will....

DJATWORK · Post by **DJATWORK** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:06 am

You can try with "Diamond Cut Tools".
Is a very value software wich also is very cheap. The original version, was only 4 1.44MB diskettes, and worked really fine.

Now there is a 2.0 version (or something like that), and it should be better. Anyway, the first version was really good.

It´s like an audio editor, very similar to Wavelab in aspect, but it only have restoration tools, for vinyl, digital errors, etc etc.

Anyway it´s very dificult "being happy" with this kind of "clean" results, because it´s impossible completely remove a click or any noise without modifying the "original" sound.

I hope it helps... I know it will!!

DJATWORK

Sunshine · Post by **Sunshine** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 8:12 am

The question is how seriously flawed is the material?? you can often make it sound better, but not always restore it to a commercial state. To overdo things will inevitably kill signal integrety. Try different filters and eqs, which all have different slopes and characteristics...In Samplituder exists a FFT filter where you can remove/reduce individual bands... With notch filtering, you need to use a Q slope that has very sharp sides, a very thin Q, that affects only the desired frequencies to be cut. Maybe boost some freqs that seem to have a little more musical content. Maybe a little bit de-compression will help. The tools mentioned above are good...But whith the time approaching you will notice that there are no miracle restoration cures that do it all fully... Nevertheless good luck!

Regards,
Bernhard

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