De-Clicker Settings Problems

[ChristineG]

Thanks again for the reply Trebor. I can't get a copy of ClickRepair till early July as the author is on Holiday or travelling. I have tried demo version of some of the more exepensive offerings you were talking about, but they are a bit scary on my limited and less than 6 months knowledge. I have also since found out that one of my three media players was creating the oscillation so some of my earlier setting of going to the end of the top and bottom of the FFT range and then running Declicker probably worked, and just left me with minor cleaning up. Thanks again.

[Paul L]

Hello, I discovered this discussion belatedly. I have not listened yet to the example.

The De-Clicker was intended to remove naturally occurring but undesirable mouth noises from narration, not to repair damaged audio signals which is not quite the same problem, but if you think it does a decent job for this purpose too, that's swell!

I have told people that the way to catch more clicks (at a cost in computation time) is to have more and narrower bands, not to lower the threshold which risks increasing the "mud."

Perhaps in your case you could use an even higher threshold to treat the sound more cautiously but still get the obvious clicks.

Maybe varying the last parameter for width of repair interval would affect the mud too -- I am just guessing here.

[ChristineG]

Thanks Paul for the reply, sorry I am late with this but I have been away for a few days. Things have moved on a bit since I posted either of my two posts. I found out that my KM media player was causing oscillation, and wasn't giving true representation . I had to change it and all my media players now work. To use De-Clicker, I pick the figure that shows up mostly as the peak Hz figure of the highest point of the noise with Plot Spectrum. It is usually somewhere between 100 and 300. I then set the top end frequency to 22000 and run it with the rest on default. This solves everyting for me if it is a group of musicians. I can improve overall sound with filters after that and tidy things up. It is a bit more difficult with intricate guitar peices however where some of the bright sound is replaced by mud in the 125-150 Hz area. I have been using the excellent Repair Channel add on by Steve Daulton for those as I am working with sterio tracks. This only works if the left and right channel are roughly the same and the noise is only on one side. The other two areas of De-Clicker you mention related to threshold and the repair interval I don't understand very well. I will test the higher threshold as you suggest, and let you know. De-Clicker is the best that I have found for this type of thing and is working on most albums. Thanks for the reply.