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Subject:Getting rid of clicks Posted by: farss Date:6/1/2005 2:55:22 AM I have many hours of material transfered via SPDIF from DAT. Given that and that I've done this many times before without any hiccups I'm assuming the problem is on the tapes. What I'm finding are tiny clicks, less than 1mS long, typically peak to -24dBFS and decay exponentially with a ring at around 8KHz. They're not THAT noticable but I'd like to get rid of them without doing any other harm. I've tried the obvious click removal tool but it seems pretty much optimised for the bigger clicks coming off vinyl, listening to the residual output I can't find a setting that'll kill these clicks without impacting on every thing else. So far I'm just going along by hand and zapping the little buggers but with 14 hours of audio it's getting rather tedious. I'm suspecting these tapes might be a bit warn out actually but I've not enough experience with DAT to know what it does when it starts to go bad, looking at the waveform of these clicks it looks more like something that happened in analogue land
Subject:RE: Getting rid of clicks Reply by: rraud Date:6/1/2005 11:21:14 AM This may be after the fact, but when transfering audio S/PDIF or AES, the audio sources' word clock should be used. In your case the DAT. Using the internal clock is a common cause of clicks and snits.
Subject:RE: Getting rid of clicks Reply by: farss Date:6/1/2005 2:48:29 PM My sound card was locked to the SPDIF clock, to be honest with this rig without that things get very ugly. I transferred 10 DATS for this project. Some tapes are very clean and others have these little 'ticks' every few minutes. Bob.

Subject:Getting rid of clicks

Posted by: farss

Date:6/1/2005 2:55:22 AM

I have many hours of material transfered via SPDIF from DAT. Given that and that I've done this many times before without any hiccups I'm assuming the problem is on the tapes.
What I'm finding are tiny clicks, less than 1mS long, typically peak to -24dBFS and decay exponentially with a ring at around 8KHz. They're not THAT noticable but I'd like to get rid of them without doing any other harm.
I've tried the obvious click removal tool but it seems pretty much optimised for the bigger clicks coming off vinyl, listening to the residual output I can't find a setting that'll kill these clicks without impacting on every thing else.
So far I'm just going along by hand and zapping the little buggers but with 14 hours of audio it's getting rather tedious.
I'm suspecting these tapes might be a bit warn out actually but I've not enough experience with DAT to know what it does when it starts to go bad, looking at the waveform of these clicks it looks more like something that happened in analogue land

Subject:RE: Getting rid of clicks

Reply by: rraud

Date:6/1/2005 11:21:14 AM

This may be after the fact, but when transfering audio S/PDIF or AES, the audio sources' word clock should be used. In your case the DAT. Using the internal clock is a common cause of clicks and snits.

Subject:RE: Getting rid of clicks

Reply by: farss

Date:6/1/2005 2:48:29 PM

My sound card was locked to the SPDIF clock, to be honest with this rig without that things get very ugly. I transferred 10 DATS for this project. Some tapes are very clean and others have these little 'ticks' every few minutes.
Bob.