plugin vs recording software

[waxcylinder]

My question is: Is there a difference in quality/ability using the plugin within Izotope vs Audacity, or is all the heavy lifting being down purely by the plugin?

AUdacity uses the izotope plug-ins (when you have them available - the plug-ins are doing the heavy- lifting

Izotope is rather expensive but works really well. It’s declick plugin still does a good job within audacity too. If I can save money by just using it or another good declick program within Audacity all the better.

Audacity does have its own Click Removal effect - see: https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Click_Removal

When I was transcribing my LPs I used Brian Davies’ excellent ClickRepir - costs a little but works wonders - see this sticky thread: Click/pop removal - ClickRepair software
You do get a 14-dat free-trial …

WC