The resulting (mixed) track contains the difference between the original and the ClickRepair’d tracks, which as you can see in this image contains only a few clicks. Pressed Ctrl+M to mix the two tracks to a new track.Select the ClickRepair’d track and applied “Invert” from the Effect menu.Both tracks sound identical except for a a few clicks that have been removed. Listened carefully to both track (using the “Solo” button to switch from one track to the other).Imported both the original WAV file and the ClickRepair’d WAV file into Audacity.Ran ClickRepair with the default settings and output the file with (the default) “-cr” suffix to the file name.Opened a stereo 0 Hz Microsoft PCM WAV file.Ran the “JClickRepair.jar” file with Sun Java. Downloaded the zipped jar version of “ClickRepair 3.4 (build 4.2a)” from here:.I used the standalone Java version because I’m using Linux. My Audacity version used was 1.3.12 - ClickRepair was 3.3.1 (Build 41b) with my normal default settings (DeClick=30, DeCrackle=off, Pitch Protection=on, Reverse=on, Method=Wavelet). And listening to the before and after recordings, the soundstage and stereo image was identical in both cases.īoth Audacity’s Click Removal and Click repair dealt with the click extremely well. My test piece was the first sixty seconds of Sgt Pepper which has an extremely marked and wide stereo sound stage.īoth visually examining the waveforms on Audacity with before and after CR preocessing they look identical except for the click which I’ve always had at about 45 seconds in. I can detect no compression or compromise/change of the stereo effect. Well I’ve just tested both Brian Davies’ ClickRepair software and the Click Removal effect in Audacity. 1… and I still heard the same compression on my track: the stereo separation effect was noticeably compromised. I removed pitch control and reverse, I used simple method and I only used Declick level no. Pros: Nothing better at this price point.Ĭons: UI not very intuitive - takes some getting used to but works well once you get figure it out.I have not seen anyone on these blogs notice the clear compression that ClickRepair renders on any recording. Can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. Then a software de-clicker has a good chance to work. If you want to successfully 'repair' your records you should throughly clean them and use the best quality recording possible. Too much of the original waveform has been destroyed. This is rather silly! You can't expect to repair a lossy recording. He also complains about the lack of mp3 support. That is incorrect! There are several options to preview the results and in real-time: listen to the corrected music, listen to only what's has being removed, etc. The editor states there is no there is no preview available. In addition, there is a 21 day trial period, so you can try it for free before buying. Click repair has multiple state-of-the-art algorithms to remove clicks from records. The only better options are profe ssional tools costing $500 and up. This is a great program and arguably the best available for home use. Work-arounds for problems with FileDialogs on Mac OS X.Minor bug files. In fact, the overall interface isn't particularly intuitive and takes some time getting used to.Īll things considered though, if you're looking for an economical way to remove imperfections from your beloved vinyl recordings, ClickRepair is definitely worth a try. However, dragging the cursor along the sound wave produces rather mixed results with the sound jumping from one point to another which may be due to the fact that ClickRepair requires Java to work. You can preview how your new repaired file sounds by previewing either the repaired section or listen to only what's has being removed. The program analyzes interference on the record and compensates for hiss and crackles by performing what's known as 'audio interpolation'. The program will accept either mono or stereo file formats and the maximum sample rate is 96 kHz. In order to use ClickRepair, you must first capture the sound as uncompressed audio files in 16 or 24 bit format in either AIFF or WAVE format - MP3's are not supported although this is mainly because MP3s have usually lost too much of the quality in the original recording (during the compression process) to be repaired.
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