vinyl pop/crackle cleanup

[o-ron]

I tried using this on a few albums I recorded off of vinyl and was quite disappointed with the results. My records are in quite good condition (well, at least the ones I was recording) and they only have the occasional "pop" here and there.

I was trying to have it automatically remove the pops (and maybe some crackle as well) but no matter how I adjusted the settings it always did a "hiss reduction" as well *and* it was too aggressively removing pops. The output sound was much duller and flatter and not worth the loss of pops. So I just kept it original.

Is there any way to have it *just* remove severe pops, and nothing else?

Thanks

[camn]

have you messed with it at all? there are totally threshhold settings....

?

xoox

[o-ron]

yeah, I tried all the threshold settings, and was able to adjust the sensitivity, but it was still reducing hiss and making the treble sound very dull.

[mapeterson]

If your albums are very good try highlighting the pop only and then use the fill single click feature. If you are trying to do a whole album get clickfix and forget the click and pop removal in cool edit this one will do it in one tenth the time and it don't mess with the sound. This is a great plugin and if you are dealing with vinyl a must. You can read about it or download it here I still use the one in cool edit for a single click that this won't remove completely but it has to be a big one for this program to miss.


http://www.jdklein.com/clickfix/download.htm

[o-ron]

Thanks!

[rats]

The "fill single click" thing works really good for an occasional pop. You need to zoom way in on it and highlight the peak.