Essentials

CLICK REPAIR

Click & Pop Removal

Download free Part of NULL JSFX 2.6.1: 113 plugins, free and open source (MIT). Easiest with NULL JSFX Hub.

Listen

The same music with the Vinyl Crackle preset and without the plugin. Switch while it plays.

Controls

Threshold0 to 100% — Detection sensitivity: 0% flags jumps 4x the running average step, 100% only flags jumps 30x larger.
Window1 to 50 Samples — Number of samples marked as damaged after each detected click and redrawn.
ModeClick / Crackle — Click finds single clicks and pops (a sample's jump against the slow running average); Crackle finds the dense small ticks of worn vinyl (the second difference, which hides the music's low end, against a faster average, 3x to 20x).

Best uses

Removing clicks and pops from vinyl transfers
Fixing digital spikes and edit clicks
Cleaning mouth clicks on close-miked vocals
Restoring archival recordings

Properties

Input → step detector (Click: sample jump vs running average; Crackle: second difference vs a faster average) → mark Window samples as damaged → linear interpolation between the good samples on either side → Output. Latency of 2 × Window samples, reported to REAPER for delay compensation; each channel is repaired independently.

Formats

JSFXJSFX for REAPER, with REAPER's own sliders
GFXJSFX GFX for REAPER, with its own interface
VST3VST3 for any DAW
CLAPCLAP for any DAW

Factory presets

Vinyl Crackle · Heavy Vinyl Pops · Digital Spikes · Edit Click Fix · Mouth Clicks · Archival Restore · Worn Vinyl Crackle · Light Crackle

Try it

Try it on orOS StudioAdd it to a track in your browser, with its own interface. Nothing to install.