Basic Editing Question

[Paul_m]

Hello Duckies,

I transeferred a minidisk I recoreded of an Irish music show I saw a long time ago. I wanted to keep some of the talking but the fiddle player left really large gaps between his sentences, so I shortened some of them. On some of them there is a pretty distinctive click where the edits are. There is some background noise on the disk, but I don't think it changes in volume much while he's talking. I've noticed this other times when I have tried to punch stuff in.

Is there an easy way to soften or eliminate clicks like that?

I'm guessing something to do with the pencil tool, which I haven't really figured out how to use yet.

Thanks
Paul [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[Rail Jon Rogut]

If the pops are at region edit boundaries.. use crossfades. If the pops/clicks are in the middle of regions.. then you'd need to use the pencil tool (make copies of the audio first).

Rail

[vocalize]

Hello!

You can also zoom in to the sample in the waveform. Find the spot where the click is and using the pencil tool, simply draw it down. The click or pop should be gone.

I do agree that you should save the inital take, copy it and work with the copy so you don't loose the original take.

Hope this helps. Good luck to you!