![]() Last edited by 001robin February 9th, 2013 at 11:00 PM. In case you are wondering, I am no relation to the author of ClickRepair, and I paid for my copy! Brian Davies, author of ClickRepair, also makes DeNoise.He claims it works well on tapes but I havent read any reviews. They offer a 21 day, full function trail and it will run you 40 if you like it. It is still worthwhile playing with the settings and listening to the results while setting it up though. ClickRepair is the perhaps the most widely acclaimed software out there for removing vinyl clicks, pops and crackles. This can be worked around by processing with the sound turned off. It refuses to continue, but can still be stopped and restarted from the beginning (without losing the settings). I have found one bug in the Linux version - sometimes processing stops when the sound is turned on to listen to samples. Until recently, I was running Clickrepair under windoze, but now (at last!) I have it running on my new PC under Ubuntu. If you want the best results, you need to experiment with different settings, often for each LP. There is a learning curve for ClickRepair, don't expect to master it in one hour. The results are, in my opinion, excellent. I find it takes up to 1/2 hour to process an LP, sometimes more in a bad case. This way the repairs are completely undetectable. This way the start and finish points for the worst clicks can be adjusted manually before making the repair. I find it best to set "automatic" to around 80 or 90. ClickRepair is brilliant at correcting faults, but not so good at selecting the best start and finish point for each repair. Don't expect to let it run on fully automatic if you want first class results. I have found, though, that it is best to use some manual intervention unless you have a really pristine LP. With care, all trace of clicks can be removed, the sound is clearer, and there is no loss of brilliance. Using this flow, automatic up to clicks 10-20 samples wide (for a hi-res recording at 44.1kHz I put the limit at 10 samples), manual/visual above that, combined with a low detection sensitivity (5 to 10), I can process an album side in 10 minutes or so, while remaining confident in the sonic outcome.I have been running ClickRepair for several years now, and I have used it to process the sound from approaching 100 LPs. are repetitive: when I see such an artefact twice or thrice in a couple of seconds, I know it is the music itself and I omit correction. While there is a preview/prelisten feature I never got to grips with it, but I found after only a short while that many real clicks are visually distinct from real sound, obviating the need for listening! In those cases where it is too hard to see directly what it is, I found that false positives often follow the music's rhythm, i.e. Alternatively, it allows you to edit the repair manually. If the presumed click exceeds that size, the program stops, displays the waveform, and asks you to decide if it is click or music (clicking Accept then makes the repair, while hitting the return key skips to the next click). ClickRepair has a programmable detection threshold, and lets you have automatic repairs done to clicks up to a specified duration or number of consecutive samples. For me it is the only sonically tranparent tool that still allows a reasonably fast workflow. This is part of an article soon to be published at TNT Audio:ĬlickRepair is a shareware application for PC and Mac, written and maintained by Australian retired mathematics professor Brian Davies.
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