Plectrum Clicks

[steve]

Brian Davies "Click Repair" does a pretty good job of removing the clicks automatically.

That's pretty impressive - the Audacity Click Removal hardly touches them.

I've just had a go with "Gnome Wave Cleaner" (an open-source sound restoration program for Linux) and with a bit of fiddling that also did a pretty good job.

In this sample I used Declick Preferences of
Weak Click detection = 1.0 (default 1.0)
Strong Click detection = 1.0 (default 0.75)
Use FFT Click Detection = Off/not selected (default = On/selected)

I then ran "Big Click" removal followed by "Small Click" removal.
I quite like this version as you can still hear the plectrum but it has had the nasty clicky edge taken off.

I'm not sure if it's appropriate as a feature request, but it would be great to see Gnome Wave Cleaner made into a plug-in for Audacity (though perhaps not so great for Brian).

[waxcylinder]

I'm not sure if it's appropriate as a feature request, but it would be great to see Gnome Wave Cleaner made into a plug-in for Audacity (though perhaps not so great for Brian).

But as you point out Steve GWC is a Linux only piece of s/w - not so great for those of us runnining Windows PCs or MACs. And AFAIK (but please correct me if I am wrong) there is no longer any support for or maintenance of GWC.

So for now I certainly will be sticking with Brian's excellent ClickRepair - one of the great things about buying from Brian is that he does not charge you for any future updates (and he makes many) once you have purchased his software.

WC

[steve]

But as you point out Steve GWC is a Linux only piece of s/w - not so great for those of us runnining Windows PCs or MACs. And AFAIK (but please correct me if I am wrong) there is no longer any support for or maintenance of GWC

GWC (as it stands) is a Linux application, but the algorithms that it uses are not platform specific.
There was some correspondence with the developer of GWC on the audacity-devel list quite recently. He's not wanting to become an Audacity developer in the sense of
actually compiling the code, but says he would be very happy to help someone understand the basic algorithms used by GWC.