Software for ripping and declicking vinyl

[punkyuk]

I don't doubt that excellent results can be achieved with CR, and that they very much depend on how the user sets up the program. I just want people to understand that there is no "free lunch" when it comes to noise removal. Doing it right takes some work.

I am finding this to be very true as i attempt to clean up a copy of "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" by Genesis.

I wouldn't mind but it aint that bad a copy either


Still its fun learning to use the software (Audacity) and i like the results so far.

yours punkyuk

[michaelevans60]

Audacity works fine for me - very well actually - when I first started needleripping I played with the auto de-clicking and clean up but it always seemed to take the vinyl "life" out of the rip. Now I leave it alone unless I know of a particular click or scratch and zoom in as close as I can to supress it.

[Axon]

The click removal in Audacity is about as simplistic as it gets. It works well for removing large clicks that otherwise would compromise amplifying the audio up to 0dbFS peak, and for removing some of the noise in silent bands. But it can also remove a lot of real musical signals, and especially stuff like horns. I only use it in specific regions. (It's too slow to use across an entire track anyway.)

[Werner]

All, forget about these toys. ClickRepair is utterly brilliant and costs next to nothing.

[michaelevans60]

The click removal in Audacity is about as simplistic as it gets. It works well for removing large clicks that otherwise would compromise amplifying the audio up to 0dbFS peak, and for removing some of the noise in silent bands. But it can also remove a lot of real musical signals, and especially stuff like horns. I only use it in specific regions. (It's too slow to use across an entire track anyway.)

Yup, as I said in the previous post that is exactly how I use it. I don't want to process the recordings through any filter to be honest - just pick out the big clicks and leave the rest in all it's ripped analogue glory!

[ripblade]

All, forget about these toys. ClickRepair is utterly brilliant and costs next to nothing.

Yes, but does it have a spectrogram for viewing clicks in the waveform? Much easier than a 2d line trace.

[Werner]

Yes, but does it have a spectrogram for viewing clicks in the waveform? Much easier than a 2d line trace.

No. But IMO you don't need that. I used the spectral way too, in the past, but I find my workflow with ClickRepair is infinitely better and faster.

I use it with the DeClick parameter at 5, which makes it very mild in detection. Then I allow it to process automatically for corrections up to 20 samples wide. If the proposed correction exceeds this limit the tool comes back to me to make the final judgment. In most cases I can at that time visually ascertain if the transient is a click or genuine musical signal. Although I have to admit that I only got that sensitivity after having done a couple of albums.

While running ClickRepair continually displays detection statistics and paints corrected areas in the waveform. One can see it easily when the parameters are set for over-correction. It is then just a matter of aborting, lowerin the detection settings, and restarting.


To all, just give it a try. The demo version runs for 10 days or so.