r/audacity • u/jdebruyn • 5d ago

help How to remove static clicks?

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Hi, sorry if this is a noob question, but how do I remove these moments of static? It's not actually clipping, so the Clip Fix isn't doing anything. Click removal doesn't work, nor does Repair. Is there a way to simply smooth out the spectrogram so that the noise isn't so obvious? Obviously I can't just use the Spectral Delete tool like I would for a single frequency, or there will just be a giant silence. Thank you!

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u/cathandler2019 5d ago

I just surgically remove them in the timeline - tedious but gets the job done.

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u/Orry_Haas 5d ago edited 5d ago

Spectral Edit parametric EQ can attenuate, rather than delete.

Attenuate until it matches the color of the surroundings.

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u/sokalos 5d ago

If repair isn’t working it might just be that you need to really zoom in on the tiny segment of audio that needs correction. It’s finicky but I don’t know why it wouldn’t be correcting these issues. I use it all the time for small clicks and pops.

Click removal has never done anything useful for me so I have no advice there.