Awesome! When it's hard to find, I highlight and use analyze/plot-spectrum (in audacity). There will be a spiky high freq. that I can notch-filter out. That's useful because the click frequency can vary day to day.
Best video I've watched on editing clicks. Thank you for making this process easy to understand. Subscribed and bookmarked. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks Tiara! Glad you enjoyed the video! Feel free to join our mailing list in the video description as well to stay up to date with all of our posts, tips, and lessons!
Dang I can't seem to find the area on the waveform that has the click! I know where the click is but there's no visual difference in the waveform. Dang.
One extremely important thing to know about using the Pencil Tool however - - it is DESTRUCTIVE editing. I found this out the hard way. Despite making a duplicate of the track I was editing, I discovered that any edits I did to the duplicate file were also applied to the original, and the changes were permanent. Fortunately the vocal track I was working on was recorded at a Pro Studio and they had a back up file.
That's very true Perry - but there are ways around it to give yourself a safety net. If you do a Pencil edit on a piece of audio, it will apply it to every instance of that piece of audio, if you copied and pasted it on the same track, or if you duplicated the entire track with that audio on it. But if you make a mistake, you can always use the "Undo" feature to go back, and depending on your settings you can undo 10,15,20 times if you make a lot of pencil edits and then decide you don't want them. Another thing you can do, is before you start any pencil editing, export the file from your clip bin, or just bounce it out of Pro Tools without any processing, and name it something like "Audio File - Original Version" - then you can always re-import that back into your session if you need it because you made a mistake with your pencil edits.
Thank you. I've done a great deal of pencil editing . . . maybe a hundred hours over ten years, and did not know that it was destructive. It had not created a problem for me (UNDO!) , but I also just got lucky. I'l work with copies going forward.
The best surgery for mouth click and the same is adobe audition where your can clean the raw recording by tools like photoshop ! It's more flexible and fast.
My issue is, these clicks happen right in the middle of some words. Still haven't figured out how to remove them apart from fading in/fading out where applicable, or re-recording. I don't know what cause that, no matter how much I research on the Internet!
You might want to check out iZotope RX. It includes a "De-Click" module that helps reduce clicks in any part of the recorded speech - www.izotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx.html
What recording program/software is this? They are all slightly different aren't they? I use Audacity and wondering if the pencil trick is available in that....thinking of trying a new software such as garage band or Logic Pro.
Hey Cybele, the software being used here is Pro Tools. But these techniques should be applicable in other software as well including Audacity. The deletion method will work in any software and if the click or noise is short enough, it should get the job done. You should also be able to use the pencil method in Audacity as well, there's more info on that here - manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_click_and_pop_removal_techniques.html
I'm on PT 11 here, and you do in fact need to zoom in pretty far to the waveform to make pencil edits. Are you referring to PT 12? It would be nice to be able to do pencil edits from a little further out, but chances are whatever you are editing is occurring in a pretty small span of time, so it makes sense to need to zoom in pretty close.
MichaelLangsnerMusic Hi, not familiar with what PT 11 or 12 means. I'm using the latest Audacity I think it's 2.2.2? And yes, I try to redraw a wave form where there's static fizz, and it takes forever zooming in & out, comparing, re-drawing, over & over.
Yup! we do provide audio repair and editing services, can definitely help you out. Shoot me an email at info@MBLMusicVoice.com and we can discuss further.
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Awesome! When it's hard to find, I highlight and use analyze/plot-spectrum (in audacity). There will be a spiky high freq. that I can notch-filter out. That's useful because the click frequency can vary day to day.
Best video I've watched on editing clicks. Thank you for making this process easy to understand. Subscribed and bookmarked. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks Tiara! Glad you enjoyed the video! Feel free to join our mailing list in the video description as well to stay up to date with all of our posts, tips, and lessons!
Wow! Great tip. Exactly what I was looking for. :) Thanks for sharing. :)
Been looking for exactly this kind of remedy for a couple of weeks now. This was so helpful and concise, thank you!
Glad it helped!
Excellent technique.
Great video! I agree with Tiara, one of the best videos out there on the subject. Thank you!
Dang I can't seem to find the area on the waveform that has the click! I know where the click is but there's no visual difference in the waveform. Dang.
One extremely important thing to know about using the Pencil Tool however - - it is DESTRUCTIVE editing. I found this out the hard way. Despite making a duplicate of the track I was editing, I discovered that any edits I did to the duplicate file were also applied to the original, and the changes were permanent. Fortunately the vocal track I was working on was recorded at a Pro Studio and they had a back up file.
That's very true Perry - but there are ways around it to give yourself a safety net. If you do a Pencil edit on a piece of audio, it will apply it to every instance of that piece of audio, if you copied and pasted it on the same track, or if you duplicated the entire track with that audio on it. But if you make a mistake, you can always use the "Undo" feature to go back, and depending on your settings you can undo 10,15,20 times if you make a lot of pencil edits and then decide you don't want them. Another thing you can do, is before you start any pencil editing, export the file from your clip bin, or just bounce it out of Pro Tools without any processing, and name it something like "Audio File - Original Version" - then you can always re-import that back into your session if you need it because you made a mistake with your pencil edits.
Good advice. Thanks.
Thank you. I've done a great deal of pencil editing . . . maybe a hundred hours over ten years, and did not know that it was destructive. It had not created a problem for me (UNDO!) , but I also just got lucky. I'l work with copies going forward.
Thanks for this helpful info. The pencil tool doesn't seem to work the same way in Logic Pro, but still I gained a lot of great info.
The best surgery for mouth click and the same is adobe audition where your can clean the raw recording by tools like photoshop ! It's more flexible and fast.
Glad to find this one! Thanks.
No problem!
You saved me. Thank you!
No problem Erica! Glad it helped!
Thanks!
Thank you so much! This was extremely helpful.
No problem! Glad it was useful!
Great video
Thanks for your video!!
My issue is, these clicks happen right in the middle of some words. Still haven't figured out how to remove them apart from fading in/fading out where applicable, or re-recording. I don't know what cause that, no matter how much I research on the Internet!
You might want to check out iZotope RX. It includes a "De-Click" module that helps reduce clicks in any part of the recorded speech - www.izotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx.html
What recording program/software is this? They are all slightly different aren't they? I use Audacity and wondering if the pencil trick is available in that....thinking of trying a new software such as garage band or Logic Pro.
Hey Cybele, the software being used here is Pro Tools. But these techniques should be applicable in other software as well including Audacity. The deletion method will work in any software and if the click or noise is short enough, it should get the job done. You should also be able to use the pencil method in Audacity as well, there's more info on that here - manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_click_and_pop_removal_techniques.html
Thanks for this. In the latest version, unfortunately you can't redraw the wave form that far out that way. Would be really nice if you could.
I'm on PT 11 here, and you do in fact need to zoom in pretty far to the waveform to make pencil edits. Are you referring to PT 12? It would be nice to be able to do pencil edits from a little further out, but chances are whatever you are editing is occurring in a pretty small span of time, so it makes sense to need to zoom in pretty close.
MichaelLangsnerMusic
Hi, not familiar with what PT 11 or 12 means. I'm using the latest Audacity I think it's 2.2.2? And yes, I try to redraw a wave form where there's static fizz, and it takes forever zooming in & out, comparing, re-drawing, over & over.
Ah ok - PT is Pro Tools, which is the software I was using in this video
MichaelLangsnerMusic
Ah! Somehow I missed that! Looks a lot like Audacity and this came up in search results.
MichaelLangsnerMusic
I should delete my comment here. Thanks for your reply!
I can't find pencil drawing tool in reaper.
awesome do you provide these services
Hey Paul! What services were you referring to? Voice-Over or Audio editing/repair?
MBLMV Voice-Over audio editing mouth noises/click removals - perhaps you use the plaform Airgigs to provide this service?
Yup! we do provide audio repair and editing services, can definitely help you out. Shoot me an email at info@MBLMusicVoice.com and we can discuss further.
you re wrong pencel drow