Tiny clicks (encore)

[jademan]

when I upgraded Audacity to 3.2.0 - the clicks were almost completely (95%) gone.

I am glad to hear that 3.2.0 seems to be working better for you in this regard. The Audacity developers have been continuing to work on a major restructuring of the code base. I have noticed many speed improvements in Audacity since 2.4.2.

Personally I use a battery powered H2n Zoom for my recordings and I have no issue with this. If you need perfect recordings from your PC, you might also explore some software that uses the ASIO interface which purportedly does a better job than the standard Windows audio interfaces.

1. could you please advise if we will get the option to disable the smart clips?

Here is the developers discussion regarding smart clips: Performance and file size issues when copying and pasting a small portion of a very large clip · Issue #3820 · audacity/audacity · GitHub

it looks like I have an impossible choice to make: between the slow and cumbersome DAW or the clicks.

Perhaps you can record in the one and export to the other.

2. do you have the instructions (explanation in layman terms) of the de-clicker plugin which was offered free by one of the users? My main question is which setting do I need to change to minimise the overall reduction of the audio quality (loss of richness) when I need to run it over not just for one word but the whole sentence or paragraph.

Personally, I don’t have click issues, but you might gain some insight reading this user post: Updated De-Clicker and new De-esser for speech - #301 by procrastinator427