Declick

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Declick is useful for restoring for old vinyl and other phonograph recordings that are riddled with clicks, pops and crackles. Declick can also remove a variety of short impulse noises from other sources, including some clicks caused by digital errors.

Decrackle

Typically, the duration of a single click and pop will not go beyond 10 ms. Decrackle is designed to handle a more continuous stream of irregularities in your audio that become blended together at lower amplitude levels, resulting in what we hear as crackle.

TIP: Decrackle is not designed to be used instead of Declick. On the contrary, the best results can be had by first running the Declick module, and afterward, processing with Decrackle.

Automatic or Interpolate Declick/Decrackle?

Declick/Decrackle features both Manual and Automatic modes. Automatic mode can look at a whole file, or a selection, and detect and remove clicks and pops. For audio files that have clicks/pops or crackle throughout the file, Automatic mode is the best choice as it will save you a lot of time. The Interpolate mode is useful when you want more precise control over repairing clicks, or in some cases where there are a few hard to fix clicks left over after running the Automatic mode. Interpolate processes must be performed on each event individually.

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Automatic Declick/Decrackle Mode

Start by choosing the desired Algorithm type for your Declick module. Single-band mode works very well with narrow 'digital' clicks and has the advantage of having a much faster processing time. The Multiband options work well for wider vinyl clicks or thumps and perform great on very uneven audio material such as old recordings.

Before running the module in Declick/Decrackle automatic mode, it is a good idea to look at the Spectrogram display and visually identify clicks to inspect how wide they are, as this will help you see roughly what your Maximum Click Width and sensitivity should be set to.

Hit preview to hear the result of your settings, and as audio is playing back, fine tune the sensitivity and click width sliders to remove the most clicks and pops. The ideal setting should remove the most clicks without damaging transients in the program material. For example, drum hits may be mistaken for clicks at high Width and Sensitivity settings.

To better hear what is being removed, toggle the Output Clicks Only control during preview playback. This will let you hear what is being removed from the audio, allowing you to fine tune your settings.

Note: For material with crackle/clicks or pops of very different sizes and lengths, try running Declick/Decrackle in several passes.

Interpolate Mode

To locate clicks, display both waveform and spectrogram by dragging the waveform/spectrogram transparency slider to the center. Clicks will be visible as vertical lines on the spectrogram. To select a click precisely, zoom in and inspect the waveform. While spectrogram will help with finding clicks, the waveform display will help you accurately select click boundaries.

Select the click and press Apply. The click will be removed using interpolation from the surrounding audio data. If the result is not satisfactory, try adjusting Interpolation Order or other parameters. If the click or pop is very long, Interpolate may cause a short level drop. In this case, consider using the Spectral Repair tool instead of Declick/Decrackle.

Read more about Declick & Decrackle controls in the Reference Guide.

The Industry Standard Noise Reducer “RX 7”

We will be taking a look at iZotope’s audio repair tool “RX 7” over the course of a few articles.
RX 7 helps get rid of unwanted noise in a recording, fixes distorted/clipping audio, and more at a level which would otherwise seem impossible without using this tool.
It is an incredibly high quality tool and is considered to be an industry standard.

Of course, recording a clean signal in a noise-free location would be ideal for most situations, but sometimes noise ends up making it on the recording and in many cases, you may not be able to rerecord.
You can bring your valuable recordings back to life using RX 7.

In addition, ver 7 comes with the new Music Rebalance feature. You can break a mixed L/R track into parts and balance volume, mute, or even hear them in solo using this revolutionary feature.
We will look at this in detail later, as it is a unique function found in the RX 7.

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Opening Files

In this tutorial we will be using the standalone “audio editor” version of RX7.
When you open it, you’ll first see this file window.

You can choose to drag and drop a file or open a file.

We’ve opened the file as shown.
As you can see, we have purposefully chosen a sample that has clipping (digital distortion) in it for this example.
We will be using RX 7 to fix this issue.

Using Repair Assistant

RX 7 comes with various modules displayed on the list to the right, but you may not know whats what on this list if its your first time seeing it.
But no worries, by using the Repair Assistant feature, AI will automatically detect the issues in the audio clip and select/apply various tools to it.

A pop up window will appear after clicking Repair Assistant, so select the appropriate audio type.

Dialogue refers to narration and conversation recordings, while Music refers to instrument, vocal, and other musical recording, and everything else falls into the Other category.
Press the Start Analysis button to begin analysis.

When analysis is complete, you can compare the original to 3 repaired version options.

The strength of the repair effects can be adjusted in this preview mode as well. Lets try clicking on the fader mark below.

A strength preview will be created, and a slider will pop up allowing you to adjust the strength. Move this fader to adjust the strength of the repair effects.

We could go ahead in Render the audio here, but why don’t we look and see what kind of processing is being done here first.
By putting the cursor over A, B, or C, you can look at the module names included in its module chain.

To see in further detail, click the Open as Module Chain button below.

A pop up window will appear where you can see the details of the module chain.
By clicking on the fader marks, you can view/change the settings within an effect module.

Now that we took a look at the settings, lets render this audio.
Click on the Render button to begin rendering the audio.

Once the rending is complete, the effects will be visible on the new waveform, and repair history will be added below to History.

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Each module setting is also recorded in History, allowing you to change the audio to any previous version in History.

Last, Save As to complete the audio editing process.
Though in this example we looked at using the Repair Assistant to get a basic fix of our audio, the potential of RX 7 goes above and beyond this. We will be looking at other modules in our following articles which allow you to edit sounds that RX 7 may not be able to intially pick up.

About Music Rebalance

Last but not least, we will take a look at Music Rebalance for this article.
Music Rebalance breaks a mix track into Vocal, Bass, Percussion, and Other and allows you to adjust each part.

Prepare a mix file with these instrument parts in it to utilize Music Rebalance.
Select Music Rebalance from the module list on the right.

A pop up window will appear, and we can make adjustments while playing using the preview button.

• ①Gain：Adjusts the volume of an individual part
• ②Sensitivity：Raising it raises the clarity of analyzed signal from the source, but introduces sounds from other instrument parts. Lowering it creates more separation, but leads to more unnatural editing noise. The key is to find a balance of numerical amounts between other parts to get the best effect.

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You can select algorithms for separation from Separation algorithm.

Under Separation algorithm, Channel independent allows you to run the fastest analysis of parts, but the separation quality will be lower. By going to Joint channel, Advanced joint channel, and so forth, the analysis quality increases but will run heavier on your computer.
Using advanced joint channel would be best when Rendering, but you may want to make adjustments when Previewing depending on your computer specs.

Click the Render button to complete setup and begin rendering.

This completes our first look at iZotope RX7 starting with a tutorial on Repair Assistant and Music Rebalance.
In our next video, we will be taking a look at some of the individual modules.

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