Removing P Pops or Clicks in Audio in REAPER

[@bedroomrecital]

Dang the 'option' click, to make automation item and command dragging to duplicate, is an amazing tip. I prefer automating to splitting, and this will save me loads of time. Thanks Kenny

[@edmundventura]

Every single one of your videos has this mindblowing: "WAIT! THIS IS POSSIBLE?! :O" moment... Thank you so much for this content. It still blows my mind how complex, yet simple to use and CHEAP this software is. Deserves waaay more users!

[@xxczerxx]

I initially downloaded Reaper as a means to an end to record my guitar, but over the last few months I've become absolutely obsessed with production/mixing. It's totally changed the way I approach music, I try to arrange songs now, not just riffs and melodies.

[@BStudioT]

Thank you for all your Tutorials! They made it easy for me to decide for a change to reaper.

[@TinaDoreenSchwarzkopf]

Thank you Kenny for all your work! I started with Audacity first and had to upgrade because of all the missing tools. I picked Reaper and learned it from scratch with your tutorials. I am more than happy to record, repair, mix and whatever I want to do with this DAW. I was pretty lost when I started...thought I would never understand the complexity of it, but now I don`t look back where I came from. THANK YOU!

[@CrescentRollCarl]

This trick will save me minutes on each short VO I have to do, which will add up to hours every month. Before I was automating each one. This is really nice, thanks!

[@jeffallen3382]

Cant wait for this one! One thing I've done, is close down all unnecessary programs i may have running in the background. I use the task manager to see what programs are in use and are robbing cpu power and then end task those. I've gotten rid of 99% of amd clicks & pops ive had problems with.

[@Laneth]

It's amazing how much introduced noise can be found within vox recordings, especially if one's computer isn't really beefy as far as the processor and RAM goes, AND if you're running a bunch of things you don't need to / shouldn't be like you said. Smart to have task manager up (on PC only? Does Mac have a similar app?) to monitor activity and usage while trying to get clean recordings!

[@chezchezchezchez]

You still need to “ pick a podcast” 🤣🤣

[@MrEcutler]

It's amazing how this beats any plugin that is designed to do the same thing. Thanks again Kenny!

[@Mtaalas]

Plugin tries to be automatic, this is doing it by hand one word at a time... there has to be some serious money on it if you pay someone to go through an hours worth of material and do this...

[@Laneth]

Absolutely love this Kenny, thank you! As soon as I saw it coming up in the sub box, I smashed the notify me button hahaha It's one thing to know how to use plugins to fix all these sorts of issues for efficient workflows, but it's just so cool (and/or nerdy) to learn all these little tricks for how to do things within REAPER. I cannot believe there's a way to be able to do things like splitting while just hovering the mouse and using a shortcut, but am not surprised - REAPER lets you do so dang much! hahaha

[@martifingers]

Always something to learn from Kenny. Always a pleasure too.

[@stevewoodyt]

I gotta say again. I believe it impossible to learn everything you can do in reaper. It’s like excel, you need a 2000 page book to reference.

[@NJEXECUTIONER]

been waiting for this one

[@southsideronnie]

Excellent Kenny!!

[@dedicatedspuddler7641]

As always, great stuff Kenny!

[@calsax2127]

Brilliant! Thanks for the great lesson, as always!

[@Tokolele]

Interesting method ! I tend to prefer the pre-FX volume automation to the splits, because the first preserves the items and it avoids having to tweak the fades settings (I uses very short fades). Using splits also creates multiple items, with split points not on grid, which can be issue in a musical context when you need to snap items to grid, but the method can be more relevant for sound design or podcast editing, where you don't have to snap to grid.

[@fullmixstudio4585]

As far as I know, splitting is nondestructive, which means that Reaper doesn't create new files in the audio folder. It's just an internal reference to the source file. You still have only 1 source file. You get (a) new file(s) only if you glue items.

[@Tokolele]

@@fullmixstudio4585 I ued the wrong word. I know splitting is non destructive, but it creates new items, which can be an issue. I simply don't like the second method !

[@SamiJumppanen]

1. Avoiding automation as far as possible. But for mixing, the automation usually is necessary, so 2. Unselecting the option "Move automation with items". Saves from a lot of trouble when rearranging items.

[@Tokolele]

@@SamiJumppanen I tend to avoid volume automations in producing/editing context, but pre-FX volume automation is eventually equivalent to clip gain editing. And automation item option can prevent from splitting multiple items (which I try to avoid except for musical purposes). And yes, disabling move automation with items can be very convenient. I have à shortcut to toggle it on/off, cos it can be useful too when duplicating parts with their automations.

[@GrumpyGr3g]

What a great video, all these shortcuts are dope. Love the one with Option for automations, this will save me tons of time, instead of doing clip gain by spliting items, will just do this. But definitely the S shortcut under mouse cursor is fire ! Thank you so much. Will you ever do a shortcut list mouse pad someday ? Or even a pdf file that recap all these type of tips and tricks ? Would definitely buy one.

[@fsarmiento82]

Hello, thank you for your work and share you skills and tricks everydays, i love your videos! I learned very much with them. I have a following question: If a click or a pop occurs in the middle of an item, not at the beginning or the end as shown, what can be done? Should the same steps be followed as in the video? Thank you!

[@Laneth]

(Just my initial thoughts here, not an authority at all haha) Short of re-recording the take, you *could* zoom right in on the click/pop in the middle of the item and see if you can split & fade narrowly enough to not have a noticeable edit sound, but it's likely you're going to hear the edits regardless. Clicks within items often get missed by de-click plugins too, because they aren't isolated enough from the other frequencies to be clearly 'heard' by the plugin to be actioned. You could look into "spectral edits" - either directly within REAPER's spectral view (View menu → Peaks Display Settings → Spectrogram / Spectrogram + Peaks) or you could use a repair tool like iZotope's RX spectral edits to find the click within the 'heat map' of the frequency range and try to cut just that section out, without splitting apart the whole item/waveform. 🤔Guess it just depends on how much work you're wanting to do to fix things if you cannot re-record.

[@fsarmiento82]

@@Laneth thank you bro for your help!!!

[@Laneth]

@@fsarmiento82 You're most welcome! I would be quite happy for others to jump in and correct me, or give different info if they have it - I'm still quite green myself.

[@SteveMatic]

Thank you sir. They're called "plosives" btw..

[@XRaym]

Though I can rely on these methods for some precise cases, I would rather use some kind of delickr plugins, like Acon Digital one, being able to batch adjust the reduction on the whole track, and having the reduction done automatically without item splitting is a huge time saver, and doesn't clutter the arrange view, which is appreciable. 😉And it works pretty nicely even if in the middle of sustain vocal notes, where splitting (to -ind) would be a bit much, and regular volume automation more audible.

[@jaymac1355]

Looking forward to this.. I've ran into weird robotised recordings on playback.. Like bits missing.. (firewire interface no longer supported in windys )

[@OldManandtheGHome]

The learning is never ending, is it! 😀

[@keitholiver3981]

I have just started to learn Reaper and have come across your site, I have now started to watch all your videos I’m hooked. One question is it possible to remove the noise etc from vinyl records as I have a large old collection. Many thanks keep up the good work.

[@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP]

kind of, explore the native REAPER plugin ReaFIR, look for setup explanations because it's not obvious

[@Sean-qt8sj]

Such a life saver thanks !

[@anmelehin]

Thank you, Kenny!

[@mikeonb4c]

Great video as usual Kenny. Would it be worth glueing split and cleaned up items together when done so as to avoid any risk of them getting moved individually by accident?

[@Laneth]

You could also select the items and use the default "group items" action (G is the shortcut I believe, with U ungrouping them) if you don't want new WAV files created by gluing items :)

[@REAPERMania]

You could lock them.

[@mikeonb4c]

​@Reapermania You're right and its silly but early on in the steep Reaper learning curve I seemed to fixate on glueing as the cast iron way of putting things / items back together so no risk of accidentally ungrouping/unlocking etc. And so I never picked those options up as a habit because got burned a few times with items I'd left highlighted getting moved because they were off screen.

[@tr0lz394]

This is fire, thank you

[@konafama]

Thanks! That was awesome.

[@deeskushun]

was it that podcast about pickled pepper ?

[@jasonstark5575]

Is it possible to insert this sort of split through a custom action rather than through changing project settings?

[@swayme67]

Fantastic, thank you!

[@paolomastrandrea8852]

Grazie mille Kenny

[@alexandrosgoulas]

The typical scenario where I end up having clicks is when I'm trying to put seamlessly together two takes/tracks, in that case would you still tackle it as shown in the video? Because when I use crossfade in such a way the final result doesn't have clicks anymore but it still has some weird sounding drop and increase in volume

[@SamiJumppanen]

Experiment with the fade time and slope types. And also note it's not always necessary to make a crossfade. Overlapping items without fade is also possible. Depends on the material. For example a take of strings, chords. The last chord plays over the loop border. No prob, let it be and drag a copy over the first one.

[@raycochrane3971]

It's a good trick but is, it seems, the pony only has the one. What about the other sibilant stuff? Your explanation of razor editing with Pre FX volume automation to address a variety of pops, clicks, chs, esses etc. works rather better and won't require a pass for each type of sound.

[@mixinginthebox]

Thank you.

[@chezchezchezchez]

I’m still confused. Which podcast, did he pick?

[@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP]

the one he dropped

[@jamisondonald384]

You go girl

[@marvintoll852]

It would be helpful if screen shots of Actions included the Command ID column... thus, additions to the list, or changes in descriptions can be clarified. In this case, with the current release, I don't have a "Split item under mouse cursor" without additional verbiage; there are now six item variants. Does anyone know which of the six corresponds to the recommendation? [Perhaps Command ID 40746 - it appears the oldest... this seems to work WHEN Snap Disabled.]

[@nkronert]

To be honest, watching this on my phone I didn't hear any differences before/after 😊. Great functionality though.

[@cellcoreaudio2042]

but also doable with a compressor or a transient designer.

[@viralhotspot7543]

ALSO ARE THERE ANY NEW WAYS TO ELIMINATE BACKGROUND OR WHITENOISE FROM RECORDINGS ? I KNOW RX8 does this but its not even really that good, brusfri is pretty good plugin for this but im curious if reaper has a new way, i know you have done one way way back with a cockos plugin but im just wondering if there are new ways now on reaper.

[@31416]

Genius

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Awesome

[@edwinazebia]

thanks

[@viralhotspot7543]

can you make a DE ESSING video with the new shortcuts and tricks? PLEASE?

[@joeheukerott9186]

Elegant! Thanks.😻🪕

[@bsmith8166]

Is there a plug in that does this automatically?

[@Laneth]

You can find "de-click" plugins, either standalone or part of plugin 'suites', that you can use to tackle clicks and pops, though like anything in that way they aren't infallible. Kenny's whole channel is dedicated to showing what can be done with stock REAPER plugins or processes/actions, and personally I like to learn the manual process like this to better understand what is going on behind the scenes with the plugins and automations that we might employ later on.

[@bsmith8166]

@Laneth Well, yeah, I was looking for a stock REAPER plug. Or, at least a stock REAPER way to automate this. For some reason REAPER will sometimes record the metronome and its a bitch to take out by hand.

[@BukanIbuMu]

Just use a pop filter

[@bsmith8166]

@@BukanIbuMu Pop filters don't work retroactively

[@BukanIbuMu]

@@bsmith8166 or ReaXComp and focus only on the low frequency.

[@papershark]

lol.. I had non idea that plosives are called p pops in the USA.

[@kostasvapo69]

I prefer reacomp filter for this job.

[@LuanBermudez]

A W E S O M E thanks a lot!

[@Mtaalas]

How much money has to be in a recording to pay someone to go through for example an hours worth of material and remove plosives... damn :D

[@viralhotspot7543]

you could technically de-ess this way as well right?

[@MrAndromedean]

i do this daily. XD some audio is just too good to record, oh yeah except for the pop. that has to go.

[@kojoefante]

Damn I’m early lol

[@MessingerDAD]

Me too!