pops & clicks

[Video International]

I read about a program awhile back where you take a sample of the noise 
as you describe and it filters out just that noise throughout the 
recording. But I can't find it on the web anymore. It was a stand-alone 
program and supposedly very good. But I think it was just for Windows 
:-(

Peak has a de-clicker (for big clicks) but I was hoping to find 
something that would take care of lesser noise throughout the quieter 
passages of a song. But I don't think Peak can handle that.

SoundSoap sounds like it's good for video problems. I read that it 
helps with electrical hum, room noise, air conditioner noise, road 
noise from a moving vehicle, tape hiss, etc. The Beatles' A Day In the 
Life has audible air conditioner noise at the very end, but...


>
> The only time I'm tempted to look at PCs is when I have opportunity to 
> use
> Sound Forge. <snip> Basically you take a "clean" sample of background 
> noise or hum, do an
> INVERSE of that wave, and then apply to the whole recording. This, in
> effect, can pull out background noise from UNDERNEATH a vocal. (You 
> don't
> apply it 100%, but somewhere around 70 to 80% will take out most of 
> the bkgd
> noise without adversely affecting everything else.)
>
> I've been working with Peak 3 for a while now, and it seems to have 
> similar
> capabilities, and though I haven't yet had a chance to try Sound Soap, 
> the
> principle sounds like it's probably the same.
>
> As for any pops or clicks, you CAN normalize to a certain extent and 
> reduce
> the jar of the noise, but one time events like that are probably best
> handled on an individual basis - adjusting the individual waveform as 
> much
> as possible without killing the vocal or music that's underneath.
>
> jb