How to fix pop sound

[chrisauda]

How can I fix the pop sound that comes about if I paste something or cut stuff out in between? What is this sound called (a pop?). Was wondering if there was an audacity fix besides re-recording.

audacity 2.1.3

[steve]

The "click" can be seen as a red vertical line if you switch to Spectrogram view (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spec ... _view.html)

Click / pop before repair

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and the click can be repaired using the Repair effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/repair.html

Click / pop after repair

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Note that there is more than one click, so repeat the repair for each click.
The "Ctrl + R" shortcut is useful for repeating the last used effect. (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/effe ... ast_Effect)

[chrisauda]

Steve, thanks for the step-by-step. In Spectogram view, I highlight the red column to "repair" and get "Repair effect for short samples...select tiny fraction..." message. I've selected a bunch of widths and the vertical line/pop sound is not going away, getting same message. Am I doing something wrong?

[steve]

"Repair effect for short samples...select tiny fraction..." message

You probably need to zoom in closer so that you can select a small region around the click. (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/zooming.html)

You only need to select the middle part of the red line like this;

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If I zoom in even closer in the normal "Waveform" view, you can see a little "step" in the waveform.

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That little jump is what is causing the click, and the Repair effect smooths that out for us

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[chrisauda]

Great, that helped! Highlighting the center of the column was the trick.

[waxcylinder]

I find it helps to use spectrogram view to locate the click/pop and the switch to waveform view to make the repair.

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/clic ... _view.html

WC