I’m with Koz on this one - Brian Davies’ ClickRepair is one of the “best in class” it’s results are just a little shy of magical - well worth the forty bucks if you have a lot of vinyl to process. See this sticky thread: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/click-pop-removal-clickrepair-software/1933/1
I used to do what was suggested by Trebor and manually removing my clicks, orginally with the Draw tool and later with the Repair effect when that was introduced - but that was tedious and time consuming - and I always missed some!
My workflow now is
- capture (audacity set at 44.1kHz 32-bit float
- export a 32-bit WAV file of the capture
- pass though ClickRepair (32-bit in => 32 bit out)
- import the repaired file into Audacity
- all other processing: intertrak clean-up, track labelling etc
- Export a set of WAVs
- backup the Wavs two two external USB disks
A few points:
a) I never bother to Save an Audacity project for LP/tape cature - no need
b) I prefer to work one side on an LP at a time - I like the smaller working set
c) step 2 above also gives me a raw capture backup should I need it
d) point 7 above is the most important part of the workflow
This workflow from the manual may be of interest to you: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Sample_workflow_for_LP_digitization
WC