Hi,

I hope this hasn't been asked to death before - I did a search but couldn't find anything similar.

I bought a pretty rare 12" second-hand from someone recently and it arrived with a small scratch on it. Nothing too serious but just enough to annoy me (and the dancefloor) if I played it out. Ideally, what I'd like to do is record it and EQ out the scratch - but I have no idea how to do this. Does anyone know of EQ settings I can use to do this?

All input gratefully received - thanks in advance.

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Well the part that would be hard in the ears the most would be in the high frequencies.

Download the mp3

Don't think you can EQ it, I would suggest gating.

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Depending where the scratch is you could just copy another part of the song.

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Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy Depending where the scratch is you could just copy another part of the song.

I'm attempting it at the moment but unfortunately it's during quite a busy part of the track where it's not as simple as just copying a drumloop or a groove. I'm sort of resigned to the fact that I may just have to accept that there'll be a loud snap whenever I play it out.

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Have a look at Sony's (Sonic Foundry) Noise Reduction plugins. There's a really good pop and crackle filter for this very purpose.

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Adobe Audition is really good at reducing transients - I use it all the time to get rid of pops/clicks (manually!). check it out and see if it works for you.

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Try Waves X-Click and X-Crackle , you might be able to at least take down the 'pop' without compromising too much of the overall sound quality.

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Thanks for the advice guys - much appreciated. Will investigate some of these and see what happens.

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Hi,

if you have the option of transfering and playing the 12" from CD; record the 12" to WAV. Open in Sound Forge or any other decent wave editor. Zoom in on the tick as much as possible - mute only the tick (will show as a spike in the graph)/. You're done.
If you keep the muted part very short in length, it will be almost unaudible. At least it will sound less harsh then ticks.

cheers,

BB

I agree, noise reduction plugins would probably be best for this problem.

There are also plugins for anti click that might be very useful.

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