Cleanup Audio - Repairing Clicks Manually

If VinylStudio fails to find a particularly irritating click, first try selecting the offending section of music (by shift-clicking and dragging) and then scan it with more aggressive settings. This usually does the trick, but if it doesn't, you can repair the click manually.

The hardest part of the job is locating the click (although this gets easier with practise). Really bad clicks and sratches (which can be hard for the software to detect, surprisingly) are usually visible in the waveform display as a large spike. To find them, define a selection encompassing the offending section of music as closely as possible, then zoom in on it and play the selection , watching the cursor and listening carefully (wearing headphones helps a lot). Zoom in again, if need be, and repeat the procedure. When you are zoomed in close enough, most big clicks usually become clearly visible, like this:

Once the click is located, repairing it is easy. Click (sorry) on the click, zoom in until the background of the display lights up (refining the cursor position as necessary along the way) and then click on the Insert Manual Repair button . You will then see something like this (you repair each channel separately):

Notice how different (and massive) the click looks in closeup - its unusually broad shape is why it was not detected by scanning. To finish up, drag the edges of the repair to completely cover the damaged area:

Et voila! The resulting repair is usually completely inaudible.

You can adjust the width of an automatic repair in the same way. This can be useful if, as occasionally happens, VinylStudio has not removed the click entirely. To select a repair, click (or double-click) on it in the corrections list or zoom in close and click on it in the waveform display. In either case, make sure that the Show Clicks box is checked. Here is an example of a click that has been (almost) repaired automatically:

Close, but no cigar. Although the situation is considerably improved, you can still hear it:

To remedy matters, drag the edges of the repair to remove the bump in the waveform; we also take the opportunity to repair the glitch in the left-channel at the same time (again, this is too broad to be detected automatically):