How can I remove Push-To-Talk mic on/off pops?

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How can I remove Push-To-Talk mic on/off pops?

Post by MoarPye » Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:13 am

I'm recording ingame video with Dxtory. Game audio and teamspeak chatter is recorded in the first audio channel and my own mic, with push-to-talk, is recorded in the second audio channel.

But I have a new Logitech USB headset, and I'm encountering a novel problem: Keying the mic on or off adds a loud pop with a large, square waveform to the recording. For the life of me I can't figure out how to prevent it from happening, so does anyone know of a simple, single pass technique to remove them? "Click Removal" has no effect, and you can probably see why from the picture, it's not a nice single peak... At the moment I'm blanking them out manually, but it's incredibly tedious.

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Re: How can I remove Push-To-Talk mic on/off pops?

Post by steve » Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:23 am

Try the "Pop Mute" plug-in: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 58#p122958
Installation instructions: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Downl ... g_Plug-ins
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