![]() Alternatively, it allows you to edit the repair manually. If the presumed click exceeds that size, the program stops, displays the waveform, and asks you to decide if it is click or music (clicking Accept then makes the repair, while hitting the return key skips to the next click). ClickRepair has a programmable detection threshold, and lets you have automatic repairs done to clicks up to a specified duration or number of consecutive samples. For me it is the only sonically transparent tool that still allows a reasonably fast workflow. The solution I finally settled for (after started the development of my own click detection and repair algorithms in Matlab!) is a semi-automatic method using ClickRepair.ĬlickRepair is a shareware application for PC and Mac, written and maintained by Australian retired mathematics professor Brian Davies. In my experience, and I test-drove a lot of them, none do their job without significant damage to the sound. Some of these tools work reasonably well. There exists software that does the job fully automatically, such as the declicker in Audition. A valid method, but soooo tedious and long-winded as to be impossible. The safest option is to do it manually: play the track in an audio editor, stop when a click is heard, zoom in on the waveform, and manually reduce the click's amplitude or simply cut it out. In fact it never made any previously-cleaned record sound any better at all!ĭigital click removal then. And yes, I've always treated them well and kept them clean, graduating through several record cleaning methods including B&O, Knowin/Knosti, Allsop, and since 2004 a Nitty Gritty RCM, and no, not even the RCM is a panacea. ![]() Half of my record collection is second-hand, but even the LPs I bought new all too often are marred by clicks and pops. ![]() But my stance is that it would be a shame not to remove at least the worst offenders, now that it is actually feasible to do so. After all, they are a fact of life in this game. I know that many people find vinyl clicks and pops virtually innocuous. Once each album side has been recorded as one 88.2/96kHz and 24 bit file my first processing step is click removal. Vinyl Archival - part 3 Meet Ze Ripper - Part 3 The process flow ![]()
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