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Eliminating crackles and digital clicks

Eliminating crackles and digital clicks - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Eliminating crackles and digital clicks

In this movie we are going to go over some audio problems such as crackles or digital clicking. These can occur from lavalier mic radio interference or in the lavalier mic scratches against clothing, digital clock errors, or even when the audio overloads the preamp. Digital clicks from clock errors a lot of times may be seen in the waveform data in a Pro Tools track in a very zoomed in level. So here we have a piece of audio that does have a lot of digital clicks in it. Let's take a listen to it. (Woman speaking: In this example there are some digital clicks present. This can be due to a clock issue with a digital audio recording device.) Even from zoomed this far out you can see some digital clicks in this waveform. Let me zoom in a lot more and we can really take a look at what these look like. See that spike right there? We have a pretty normal waveform and then a very violent spike right in the middle of it. So one of the ways we can deal with this in Pro Tools is actually to…

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