I guess it is painfully obvious that I downloaded the wrong file, but there doesn’t seem to be much I can do about it. This is the invitation to download it, followed by what appears when I choose to download it and direct the download to a particular folder:
Try using a different web browser.
So I have installed the latest version of De-Clicker in the latest version of Audacity on Windows 10. Now on a pretty powerful machine and setting the project to 44,100 (which I understand to be the optimal for Audacity) I cannot for the life of me get De-Clicker to action more than 5mins of music at a time. If I try for longer than this, let’s say 10mins; after about 3 minutes I get a “processing compete” and nothing happens. There’s no harsh crash and sometimes it finalises before I even see the message. I cannot be the only one. I have tried various parameter changes in the settings to no avail.
Has anyone observed similar and can offer any enlightenment to this otherwise awesome bit of software?
Hello Paul, and also Trebor and Koz,
As Arthur C. Clarke observed, any technology one does not understand may as well be magic. I feel fortunate to have fallen in among some very benevolent magicians here. I am curious about how you fuel/support your contributions to us plebes, i.e. income. Is there a charity I can donate to in your name? Or do you solicit direct cash contributions? I am not saying I am flush enough to become anyone’s sugar-daddy, but I appreciate product that helps me materially.
My second question herein is more selfish: you have done wonders in guiding me away from excessive sibilance and clicking; have you a magical formula to eliminate breath-intake noise?
Cheery bye,
John
Up until a year or so ago the project was run by part-time volunteers, donations were welcomed and were used to fun the running of the online infrastructure, servers, bandwidth etc.
Latterly Muse, a commercial company, took over the running of Audacity. Accordingly when that happened it was no longer appropriate to accept or solicit donations - so the donation links on the Website were removed.
The project remains an open-source project and thus contributions from appropriately qualified volunteers (coding, documentation, user support) are welcomed for possible inclusion in the app.
Peter
Is there any benefit to running the desibilator AND the De-Esser? Is there any benefit to running the Desibilator more than once?
You could easily answer this question yourself simply by trying it and see what happens. Does it sound better, worse, or no different after the second application?
Desibilator is Paul-L’s De-Esser by a different name.
I usually only apply Desibilator once.
Occasionally twice, but with different settings each time, when treating whistly esses.
I know nothing of audio. I just got a recording and ran the Desibilator in the default settings. There is still an issue with words that finish with ‘s’ that should be a ‘z’ sound, but there’s a sibilance. For instance, in the word “tatters” or “moves.” What can I try to fix it?
Is there an explanation somewhere of the different settings?
Trial & error the threshold value on the desibilator, (IMO leave the other settings on default).
Other free de-esser plugins are available which can be adjusted as the audio is playing (i.e. real-time).
Love the De-Clicker plugin!
I’ve been using it for a number of years, but on my most recent project, (after the latest Audacity update of 3.1?), I’ve noticed that when I apply the effect to a longer audiobook chapter,(say 45 ~ 60 minutes), the process begins, but seems to time-out about 1/3 of the way through the progress bar and stops. I check the timeline, and the effect has not been applied at all.
I’m using the default settings for the effect.
As a test, I tried applying the effect to a shorter segment of the timeline, in this case, 15 minutes, and the effect seems to have been applied successfully.
Just to be sure, I de-activated, deleted, and re-installed the effect with the same results.
Any ideas on how I might be able to apply the effect to the entire timeline successfully again?
Thanks very much!
If anyone needs to contact the developer (Paul) of this plug-in, he is on the Audacity Dev discord channel https://discord.gg/N3XKxzTrq3
His handle on that channel is Paul Licameli#6950
(Note that the “Audacity Dev” discord channel is for developers and is not a general help channel)
Can someone help me install this declicker and deesser in my audacity? I followed every you tube video I can possibly watch. But none was helpful in installing this in my audacity folder plug in. I know that before it appears in the effects, it should appear in the audacity folder plugins. I am unable to do that.
As these are Nyquist plugins, you would need to use the Nyquist Plugin Installer
Thank you Jademan
Hi Jademan,
I really appreciate it. I was able to install declicker and deesser in my audacity and was able to send my project to the company.
Irene
When I try to download the de-clicker and the de-esser all I get is a download that doesn’t have any app to open it with. I’m on a Windows 10 version 22H2. I’m hoping you can help me with this. Thank you.
See here for how to install a Nyquist plug-in: Installing plugins - Audacity Support
Ignore the video - it’s out of date. Follow the written instructions below the video.
That’s awesome. Worked like a charm. Thank you!