Fixing level overload on a recording

[Trebor]

I wonder if it’s possible at least to tone down the cracking sound?

There is a free de-clicker plugin for Audacity …

Updated De-Clicker and new De-esser for speech

Here are the latest improvements to the plug-in I am developing for filtering out of wet mouth noises and clicks from my narrations. I also present a de-esser using similar methods that fell out as a by-product. De-Clicker is designed for filtering of natural but undesirable noises that take a few milliseconds to decay, not for repairing spikey damage to a digitized signal. I did not intend this for music or vinyl repair, but I would like to hear whether it has unexpected other uses. The def…

But the settings required for your wraparound example means it will take ~10x playback time to declick,
and it’s still not completely cured, and has (subtle) collateral-damage …