Wish quickly find and repair clicks and pops in LP waveforms

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Mr. Tin Ears
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Wish quickly find and repair clicks and pops in LP waveforms

Post by Mr. Tin Ears » Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:28 pm

Been trying to remove many defects in old records using Audacity.
Seeking suggestions on the fastest way to navigate to the problem spots in the the waveform view, make a quick repair and then quickly find the next location to fix.
Is there an auto-locate pops effect?
Flaws too numerous to use a global effect like click removal or noise reduction, at least with default settings.

Suggestions please.
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Re: Wish quickly find and repair clicks and pops in LP wavef

Post by steve » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:00 am

There is a load of information about digitizing LPs here; http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sa ... ation.html
9/10 questions are answered in the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
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Re: Wish quickly find and repair clicks and pops in LP wavef

Post by Trebor » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:56 am

Mr. Tin Ears wrote: Seeking suggestions on the fastest way to navigate to the problem spots in the the waveform view, make a quick repair and then quickly find the next location to fix. Is there an auto-locate pops effect?
Paul-L's DeClicker plugin ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49#p245549
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Re: Wish quickly find and repair clicks and pops in LP wavef

Post by waxcylinder » Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:23 am

I used to do this by hand like you (a very long and arduous task) until Koz steered me in the direction of Brian Davies's ClickRepair. it costs a little around $40 I think but does come with a 14 day free trial. You can either run it manually but I ended up automating the process - but I did soften Brian's default settings a little. It produced truly excellent results for me and I listen on fairly high-end, albeit antique, QUAD ESL-57 electrostatic speakers.

See this sticky thread on the Forum: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1994

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