Is it a click ? A pop ? How to remove it ?

[Grimness]

Hi guys,

I've captured VHS and I have these redundant "clicks" which sound annoying...

I don't know to "name" them (pop ? click ? clip ?... cf. attachment) so I can't find any technique to remove them...

Thanks if you can help me out

[kozikowski]

I've captured VHS

Are the clicks there when you view the tape without the computer? It's not unheard of for the computer to be creating these noises during the transfer.

Koz

[Grimness]

Hello !

Unfortunately, I don't have the VHS with me anymore... I don't have these artifacts on all other VHS. So maybe it comes from the VHS itself, or the reading device, or yes, during the transfert...

Is there a way to remove it now ? Or a way to repeat any kind of "cleaning effect" every X milliseconds ?

Thanks

Grimness

[steve]

I don't know to "name" them (pop ? click ? clip ?... cf. attachment) so I can't find any technique to remove them...

The spectrogram does not tell us enough about the audio. Please post a short audio sample in WAV format (see here for how: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887)

[Grimness]

Of course ! Here it is :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxXd5u ... sp=sharing

Thanks

[steve]

I can't find any technique to remove them...

The only way that works for me is to manually go through with the "Repair" effect, selecting one click at a time, though that is not practical if the recording is more than a few seconds duration. The big problem is that the glitches are relatively minor and not distinctive enough for automatic repair algorithms to recognise.

[Grimness]

Ok thanks ! The Repair effect remove the glitch, indeed. But since it's on all the record... (almost 1 hour...)

Is there a plugin or a tool which can repeat operations ? Like a "macro recording" ?

[steve]

Audacity has limited ability to automate tasks, but not enough for this job. Information about automation and batch processing is here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/chai ... ation.html

[Grimness]

You mean that it can handle the job ? or not ?
Since I'm not a native english speaker, maybe I've misunderstand something.

[steve]

You mean that it can handle the job ? or not ?

No it can't.