How to remove pops manually?

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I remember readying that single pops can be removed manually by redrawing wave using Pencil tool, say in Nuendo.
When I zoom in to the point of seeing separate samples and a curve line connecting these samples, I can find a place where the smoothness of this curve is broken by a sharp drop or raise. Supposedly, this is the place that causes the pop.
All my attempts to smoothen this curve didn't really remove the pop. Sometimes it would become less audible, but would never go out completely.
How this should be done?
What is the technique?
 
One way that you can reduce it would be to normalise just the wave form of the pop to the same level as either side of it.

I was working on a recording of just vocals for a telephone message for a company and this seemed to fix the problem really well.

Porter
 
I usually select the pop in the wavefile and EQ the shit out of 350Hz down. Keep doing it till it goes away. :):)

cheers
John
 
By manually you mean "without plugins"?

Very hard task...if you want a decent result

Peace...

PC
 
if you have another instance of that same part without pops, you can copy and paste. sonic foundry has a 'depopper', but it's kind of hard to use. when i'm recording my own stuff, i always track it again. but then this might not be your case.
 
clickypoppy

Mr Stop,

I can tell you what I do to remove clicks from vinyl recordings, it's along the same lines as your method but there's a vital point you missed.

1. Zoom in on the pop, by the method you suggest until you can see the individial samples.

2. Find points either side of the pop where the wave passes through the zero point (v. important!) and reduce the level of the whole area between the zero points to zero. If this period is below a certain length of time (about 8 ms, actually it might be 8 hundredths) it will be inaudible, as the length increases it will be more noticable.

Hope that helps, feel free to ask again!

matt
 
I find the Click/Pop eliminator in Cool Edit Pro is great for those times when something jumps out at you at one place in the track only.

Try and isolate the section to the millisecond, then in the Click/Pop eliminator analyse the selected section, it'll take a couple of seconds - click OK. Voila pop has gone and Cool Edit Pro is extremely subtle about it too.

Cheers
Rich.
 
i use CEP. works like a charm, especially if you have lots of pops
 
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