i’m currently working on a file restoration for a vinyl reissue
using mainly sonnox & RX, and some hand editing i have been able to get something that the mastering & label are OK for the main part of the song
But i have a 1 minute intro from a vinyl records thats is buried in clicks ( mainly because there’s just a guitar playing quietly ), so i’m trying some stuff with SL pro…
NB : i recorded the original 45 and i’ve done everything that was doable on such an extremely rare record to remove clicks and crackles IRL
Here’s my attempt so far :
harmonic selection tool… not usable in this particular contrext, it takes “too much” even with the sharpest settings…
copying and pasting notes / harmonics to a new layer with frequency tool is by far the best i’ve found,
but sometimes the frequency selection just go crazy because of the clicks ( jump from one harmonic to the one upper or lower, or even worst make short 1 or 2 octaves bumps )
Also the transient detection tool is kind of tricky to use, as sometimes it dectects the harmonics and don’t select the start of them ( great ! ) and sometimes it does, and a really little move in the mouse position changes the way it detect, so it’s hard to get it right everytime…
I use 2 things for declicking: the SL declicker, and Waves X-Click. Any additional repairs are done by hand in SL.
BTW, if you’re trying to get results from a beat-up piece of mass-production vinyl or polystyrene that rival the sound quality of the original master tape, give up now.
Using unmix components helped way more than anything else i’ve tried !!
now i just have some artefact removing to do, but 70% of the job is done
NB : still on SL7, if i tick “unmix transients”, i get a blank screen, my computer shuts down @ 56%
( i’m working with a 48K 64b file - win 10 - 18 core processor Intel - running only SL in standalone)… looks like a serious bug
I experience a lot of declicking when unmixing, the de-clickerb within spectralayers works well, however I still find myself manually having to edit out those clicks. It all depends on the project though.
As far as tips, I would suggest to get familiar with the de-clicker (it works when you know how to use it)
I woul zoom in on the click as close as possible, cut to new layer, then do my business. Dont try a mass management of this. If you do the de-click tool to its best result and you have what is left left, all I know as a noob would be to zoom in. For this process I like to cut each part first to new layers, then work on each seperately. Time is your friend if you have it.