Minimizing clip crackles on scream vocals with Sonar plugs?

I've been checking the tracks for an old album I'm working on and there is the occasional clipping right on the vocal tracks (the problem areas can literally be counted in seconds for a whole album worth of material). I don't have much of a choice but to use these takes. They aren't super bad and it's screamer vocals anyway so I think I may just be able to mask it enough so it's not noticeable. So far I'm thinking a combination of R-Mix, zooming in for some fine surgery and some creative effects might get me close. However I'm wondering of any other techniques you guys may know of that might help. I'm pretty much limited to the stuff that came with X2/X1 Production Suite. Thanks in advance.

Hi, Cjay... I know. I wasn't the recording engineer on this one. I just get to fix it. Re-recording isn't an option either so I'm stuck with what I've got. Like I said it's very few crackles on an otherwise stellar set of tracks. I'm pretty sure it can be tamed/masked somehow. Just thought I'd check in for some extra opinions as I'm sure many of you have been handed something like this before. Cheers.

to actually answer the OP question, use microscopic cross fades. you can clone small clip a few ms before or after peak and replace peak (and again blend with crossfades). or entirely cut clipped wave, nudge over entire phrase to fill space...generally only a single wave peak...and again cross fade. barely if at all noticeable.

Aside from the stuff you already mentioned (you have reviewed the Anderton video), one solution outside of SONAR would be iZotope RX2. The demo is fully functional for 10 days.

Great stuff, guys. I'd never looked at RX before. Pretty pricey but if there's a full function demo I'll definitely be checking that out. I also have an ancient version of Wavelab on my old rig so I'll check that out too. I did find R-Mix to be really effective at some room noise removal so maybe... just maybe it's declicking function will help or some manual removal but I have a feeling that might take away TOO much. Maybe if I automate it. As far as the Anderton vids I really have to rewatch those. I watched them when I first bought Sonar and had no idea what the heck he was talking about. lol

Hey Beep.  Happy anniversary! 

Sound forge (and other stereo editors) can do the editing part.  You can just draw in and hence flatten the loud parts.  It is nondiscriminory tho - you flatten the entire signal.  The R-mix thing might be good, too, tho I haven't played w/ it much.

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Don't forget the GVST plugins have 64bit native versions too. They reside in the Beta area. The author has been threatening to reorg the site and move those out of the Beta section of the site. Just has not found the time.

You've come a long way in that year beep.
RX2 is the bomb for this sort of thing. You'll have fun working with the demo.

Sound Forge's Smooth/Enhance process works well for this.

gswitz


Beepster, I have successfully copied a short section of chorus to another section of chorus. Take a clip from a chorus that doesn't clip and lay it in another lane next to the one that clips. Then make extremely short clips that overlap the moment of clipping. I split the main lane and I use very fast fades at the clip ends and set the snap to 0 crossings. It may not do it for you, but it's cleaned up a take for me before that couldn't be re-recorded. Edit: On review this looks pretty similar to GerberBaby's suggestion.

I have used this quite successfully numerous times to fix all sorts of issues..... it's a bit harder to use this in a verse because the verse lyric is usually different..... not impossible, just harder.