Removing clicks

[arthie]

Hi guys,
is there a simple option I miss out now, to remove clicks and so on manually. I think of anything like a spectral editor like in many other DAWs or Programms like Cedar (which is tooooooooo expensive for my private homestudio  ) Would be fine if anything like that (of course much simpler) was in Mixbus, so that one do not have to leave Mixbus to clean tracks...

[madmaxmiller]

Hi guys,
is there a simple option I miss out now, to remove clicks and so on manually. I think of anything like a spectral editor like in many other DAWs or Programms like Cedar (which is tooooooooo expensive for my private homestudio  ) Would be fine if anything like that (of course much simpler) was in Mixbus, so that one do not have to leave Mixbus to clean tracks...

In the editor, locate the click, zoom in and use region gain - would be one option. With real short spikes you can simply cut them out, make sure to do this on zero-crossings.
MMM

[bjohnh]

If there's nothing else going on sound-wise when the clicks occur, region gain or cutting will work, but if the clicks are happening during music (e.g., click-track bleed) or dialog you really need a spectral editor or a "declick" plugin. Acon Digital has some very good declick, deverb, etc. plugins that it sells separately as well as being bundled into its fantastic Acoustica program (which has many of the features of Izotope RX but for much less money). I've sucessfully used the Acon declick tool to remove clicks from some recordings. If you want an affordable spectral editor, I believe there's one built into Audacity. Reaper has a good spectral editor as well. I use Acon Acoustica for spectral editing but also use Reaper if I'm already working on files in Reaper.

[madmaxmiller]

If there's nothing else going on sound-wise when the clicks occur, region gain or cutting will work, but if the clicks are happening during music (e.g., click-track bleed) or dialog you really need a spectral editor or a "declick" plugin. Acon Digital has some very good declick, deverb, etc. plugins that it sells separately as well as being bundled into its fantastic Acoustica program (which has many of the features of Izotope RX but for much less money). I've sucessfully used the Acon declick tool to remove clicks from some recordings. If you want an affordable spectral editor, I believe there's one built into Audacity. Reaper has a good spectral editor as well. I use Acon Acoustica for spectral editing but also use Reaper if I'm already working on files in Reaper.

Really depends on where the click is - your cut might be masked, that's what the whole mp3 format is built around. I didn't mention Audacity as the question was "without leaving Mixbus". If a Clicktrack is bleeding you have drawn the jackpot - there's no way around a specialised tool like RX, or re-recording if possible.

MMM

[JamieLang]

I'm just going to throw this out...you should NOT have clicks in your audio. That is NOT a normal occurrence.

that doesn't solve the ones that you have NOW...but, don't for a minute think click removal is normal operating procedure. That is something really fundamentally wrong...

[arthie]

okay thank you for that, seems that I have to take the track to the masteringstudio as it has cedar retouch, which will fixe the issue. The Acon declick is what I have at home and I hoped it would fixe the click, but either I am too dump to use it proper or the click does not fit its algorithm as it does not fix it at all.

To describe the click (and that is why clipgain will not work) it is during the die away sound of an acoustic guitar and therefore the only editing options I could imagine would be from a parallel part or different take. I was hoping that mixbus had a spectral editor, but Aou can't have everything it seams

And yes one should not have clicks, but they happen and when you have a live recorded track even click-like sounds happen in the room which will ruin somehow the best take you ever could imagine playing and a spectral editor is a quite good fixe if this happens (my opinion). Thank you all for your opinions and thoughts on the topic, now i know what I have to do and that I don't miss out a simple optin in mixbus