Free Declicker plugin for Reaper

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I would like to know if there's a free Reaper plugin for getting rid of mouth saliva sounds, like Izotope Declicker does, but for free.

Thank you
 
If it is just a batch of work you need to fix you could download a month's free trial of Soundforge from MAGIX, it has some very good noise reduction functions.

Dave.
 
It’s been a minute - I used RX11 Advanced - you could try the trial of Acon
 
Thank you for your answer. So there's no native of free plugins that do this, right?
 
Here are the main ways I deal with mouth sounds:

1. Prevent them

Make sure you're hydrated, it's important for your health. I take a big swig of water and swish it around my mouth before I go for the take, making sure to target the areas where I feel like the mouth sounds are coming from (are the little bubbles at your teeth? in the back of your tongue as you go for a particular vowel sound? pay attention and swish accordingly)

2. Cut them out of the mix

Unless I am intentionally going for a very natural, room-y / preamp hiss-y sound, I trim my vocal tracks aggressively. The track starts right when the vocal part starts, and cuts out right when the line is delivered, with a steep fade out. Like this:

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I find that a lot of the pops are right before the line, as I shape my mouth to the first sound, and can be cut away. (This also helps me remove things like amp hiss and unwanted room reflections, and removes unnecessary audio from my mix.)

3. Reduce them with plugins

You might be able to target the particular frequency of the click sound with an EQ and surgically remove it with a very narrow band while keeping the overall vocal sound intact.

If you're heavily compressing your vocals, you will magnify the click sounds as well, so you might back off the ratio a bit to de-emphasize them (at the cost of a more dynamic vocal track).

4. Live with them

People have mouths and those mouths are full of saliva. Sometimes it makes sounds. It happens.

Hope this helps!
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shmaller said:
Here are the main ways I deal with mouth sounds:

1. Prevent them

Make sure you're hydrated, it's important for your health. I take a big swig of water and swish it around my mouth before I go for the take, making sure to target the areas where I feel like the mouth sounds are coming from (are the little bubbles at your teeth? in the back of your tongue as you go for a particular vowel sound? pay attention and swish accordingly)

2. Cut them out of the mix

Unless I am intentionally going for a very natural, room-y / preamp hiss-y sound, I trim my vocal tracks aggressively. The track starts right when the vocal part starts, and cuts out right when the line is delivered, with a steep fade out. Like this:

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I find that a lot of the pops are right before the line, as I shape my mouth to the first sound, and can be cut away. (This also helps me remove things like amp hiss and unwanted room reflections, and removes unnecessary audio from my mix.)

3. Reduce them with plugins

You might be able to target the particular frequency of the click sound with an EQ and surgically remove it with a very narrow band while keeping the overall vocal sound intact.

If you're heavily compressing your vocals, you will magnify the click sounds as well, so you might back off the ratio a bit to de-emphasize them (at the cost of a more dynamic vocal track).

4. Live with them

People have mouths and those mouths are full of saliva. Sometimes it makes sounds. It happens.

Hope this helps!
s
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Thank you for your answer. Do you know the name of free plugins?
 
euandreal said:
Thank you for your answer. Do you know the name of free plugins?
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Not specifically for declicking. If you wanted to go with option 3 of my post, your DAW's built-in EQ should work just fine.

But if it's really bad, or if you have control over the source material (i.e., it's your own singing or a friend's), better to just follow the steps above and get a better take that doesn't have so many mouth sounds.
 
shmaller said:
Not specifically for declicking. If you wanted to go with option 3 of my post, your DAW's built-in EQ should work just fine.

But if it's really bad, or if you have control over the source material (i.e., it's your own singing or a friend's), better to just follow the steps above and get a better take that doesn't have so many mouth sounds.
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I appreciate your reponse very much. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
 
euandreal said:
I appreciate your reponse very much. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
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Of course! Another thing you might experiment with is microphone placement. You could try standing a bit further from the mic, raising or lowering it, singing slightly off-axis from the microphone, etc.
 
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