Aargh Static!

Hey, i got some old jazz record that have some crazy potential but i'm getting clicks and pops every second, which is making them useless to me.

Are there any tried tested and proven ways of sorting this out???

yhea I'm intrested in this aswell, as I have access to alot of dirty old vinyl..

there are aperantly few softwhere appl, that do just this clean pop's clicks out of samples, a mate uses some softwhare to clean up vinyl samples I just can't remeber the name of it, but I recall him saying it does what it does perfectly.. I'll find out..

clean it with isoprope alchohol, and maybe one of those velvet deals...
and make sure your needle isnt **** or anything

there is restoration software/plugins to help clean up the audio a bit too, but it doesnt do miracles just masks major clicks etc

I would never want to do that.
I love the grit that the record crackle creates. To me it's the sound of hiphop.
Hell, I've heard of guys playing frisbee with records before they sample them so that they have more crackle.

erkl wrote:clean it with isoprope alchohol, and maybe one of those velvet deals...
and make sure your needle isnt **** or anything

there is restoration software/plugins to help clean up the audio a bit too, but it doesnt do miracles just masks major clicks etc

i mentioned the alcohol idea at a old used record store and they looked at me like i was crazy.. it ruins the vinyl so they said..a record shop more nearby has a vaccum cleaner specifically designes for cleaning records..check it out..

hers one thing u can do, but it very time consuming and u have to have the proper tools ,

1st u get a powerfull magnefine glass and look at evry single gruv,
(meaning u look at the record from start to finish with the glass and you will see the dirt and little rocks in the gruv take a soewing needle and pick out the dirt and rocks carefully (trying not to create another scratch,)

2nd u use alcohol to clean the record over.(wipe in the rotation of the gruv,never across it).

3rd u take a soapy cloth and wash the recordin a circular motion and wash with cold water (never use warm or hot this will warp ur records).

4th if your record has scratches try my method on the repair scratches thread on this forum.

and if this dont work send me ur records! there no good anymore; i'll dispose of them for you.

good luck

peace
e.d.e

i would use distilled (?) water and a microfiber cloth... im not one of those people who clean records, but i'd try that one.

Look i'm feeling you guys on the whole, gritty is better idea, that's why i've stopped sampling from CD's. But the pops and clicks i'm talking about are obtrusive. Sometimes thay actually get in the way of the sound itself.

Like i got this hat sound, its beautiful, but right at the end there's a loud pop. Now if i use an envelope to fade it out before the pop, it's too short and sounds wrong....AAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

see what i mean.....sometimes pops are the devil.

Maybe You Could Try using the following options in Cool Edit Pro (You Have to record the needed sample first, but you knew that ):

Click Pop Eliminator:
- Goto Effects/Noise Reduction/Click Pop Eliminator

Noise Reduction (For if you have the exact Pop piece, so you can filter it out):
- Goto Effects/Noise Reduction/Noise Reduction...

Or use the Zoom Mode, so you can manually delete the "Pops" and the "Clicks"

Hope This helps

^Owni wrote:Click Pop Eliminator:
- Goto Effects/Noise Reduction/Click Pop Eliminator

Noise Reduction (For if you have the exact Pop piece, so you can filter it out):
- Goto Effects/Noise Reduction/Noise Reduction...

I do this in Sound Forge sometimes and it works great. I've used it in Adobe Audition just a couple of times also and it works great there also.

^Owni wrote: Or use the Zoom Mode, so you can manually delete the "Pops" and the "Clicks"

That would take forever AND it could mess up the sound of the wave if done incorrectly being that it's SO MANY pops and clicks, the waveform would be altered so much that it would corrupt the natural sound of whatever you were trying to sample in the first place.[/b]

yall are crazy id never clean records with alchohol... us e plain old dish washin degergent if u wanna really get rid or grease and dirt build up...

Lampdog wrote:

^Owni wrote:That would take forever AND it could mess up the sound of the wave if done incorrectly being that it's SO MANY pops and clicks, the waveform would be altered so much that it would corrupt the natural sound of whatever you were trying to sample in the first place.

I Dont know how long the sample is? but when you you use a small melody or something with a couple of "pops" you can zoom in and remove
them without corrupting the soundflow.

that softwhere that I'm talking about comes in the wave bundle wich is masetring/mix prosessing VST DSP and cost like 2grand or soemthing...

hail the Hackers..

^Owni wrote:I Dont know how long the sample is? but when you you use a small melody or something with a couple of "pops" you can zoom in and remove them without corrupting the soundflow.

That's what's up then, do the damm thang.. haha.

If you're just looking to eliminate one or two big pops......just go to the trim sample screen, and zoom in with the open window button, and zoom in with the zoom+ button. You will be able to see big pops. Select just the pop, then hit edit and use the wheel to change to "delete selection."
Then just move your selection back to include the entire sample.

I use this method to take out big pops, and it works 99.9% of the time.

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