Pops and Spikes

blow up the audio track, and zero in on the offending pop, and try to set loop regions where only the pop occurs. Then use the split toll and cut it out. if you just get the majority of it that will help.

This can be done in MC, but is even better in a true audio editor program like audacity, or goldwave, wave pad, wavesaur, sound forge,etc.

I got a vox track yesterday for a project I'm working on. As I listened, I heard 2 small clicks in it.  Knowing there was little chance of getting a clean recording redone, I needed to "fix" it.

I placed my timeline slightly ahead of the click. Then I zoomed in to the point where I could see the actual waves in the file. The wave form should have equal patterns. A click will appear as a difference in that pattern.  Could be a flat line or a missing peak or a spike in the wave.  When you find it....

Drag that track to the top of the TRACK VIEW screen, and highlight the track ... a right click in the track works. Now... on the TIME LINE.... click the mouse at the beginning of the last perfect wave cycle and drag it to the other side of the glitch. release the mouse button. A gray line should have appeared ON the time line, and inside the track you should see a shaded area that encompasses the glitch in the wave.   Now click on PROCESS> AUDIO> GAIN... and in the drop down select MUTE...click OK.

This mutes the click... hit playback and see if you got it and if it didn't create any other issues.

On this track in question.... there were 2 audible clicks.... I used this exact process to mute them both. They were inside a word...and upon playback they disappeared totally and left NO residuals behind.  

It;s the best click removal I have found yet. 

it depends on what the pops and clicks are.  if you've recorded too hot then your pops and clicks are digitial overs and while you CAN edit those with a wave editor, they will not yield the best results.  maybe usable results if it's not vocals and if it's in the mix, but not the BEST results.

my advice is to re-record those and make sure your levels not peaking above -6dB and that you are recording at 24bit (assuming you have a soundcard capable of that)

Thanks for all the input guys I'm going to try a few of them just to see what works best and to try and learn my way around MC4 but in the end I think I will end up redoing  the tracks one of the offending pops is on a bass track where I dug in a little hard and the other is a lead guitar track where I did a punch in both are not a real loss when I look at it but if it was a vocal track I would need to salvage it. let you know how it goes, Thanks Jim.

I never record "1" vocal track. I always do three complete run thrus. Three separate tracks recorded one after another. That way i have the same volume settings, and everything matches. I then listen to one and make a list of mistakes and where , then i listen to the second and do the same, and again with the third. I pick the one with the least mistakes and use edits to cut and paste good "takes" over the bad ones until i have a complete mistake free vocal track.