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RE: Thanks Tony!

I use iZotope RX4 Advanced to clean up recordings, including some vinyl transfers (that others made). It has automatic detection of clicks, but my experience is that if set to the point where it gets more than about 50% of them automatically then it will "fix" transients and affect musical realism. I found it necessary to evaluate each click by hand and decide whether it was a vinyl artifact or a transient on the recording. (Even this was sometimes difficult.) I did one 10" LP side that had about 4000 clicks and ticks. It was very badly scratched, but this was the artist's only copy of an early recording she had made that had gone to the top of the charts in New Zealand in the 1970's. A full afternoon's work declicking and some hand massaging from time to time to avoid carpel tunnel injury.

I suspect that many people using automatic declick software are not listening carefully to the sonic effects. (This is generally a problem with most audio restoration work, including almost all work done by people who haven't a lot of experience. Certainly true for everything I did for the first couple of years.)




Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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