how do you check if your audio has clicks and pops?

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  1. stav

    stav Noisemaker

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    my monitors do some clicks and pops but i'm not sure if its my audio file or my monitors issue

    how do you check if audio has clicks and pops?

    THanks
     
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  3. Kwissbeats

    Kwissbeats Audiosexual

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    Loop a bar and see if it repeats in the exact same locations?
     
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    tzzsmk Audiosexual

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    in Reaper, I use SWS extension "Loudness" which can analyze items/tracks - just make sure to enable High Precision Mode and True Peak in its Options
    and for other kinds of pops and clicks, iZotope RX de-click, de-clip and such modules actually count amount of those, so usable for estimation too
     
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    xorome Audiosexual

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    I'd use a dedicated piece of software like the aforementioned iZotope.

    If you want to do this in Reaper regardless and assuming you've rendered to audio:

    - (Trivial) Peaks: Toggle spectrogram: On. Zoom in and look for clicks, they'll be very bright and very brief.
    - (Somewhat involved) Edit->Dynamic Split will mark/split off clicks for future editing - if you get the settings right.
     
  6. paul_audioz

    paul_audioz Ultrasonic

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    If you use Reaper, the easiest way is doing a "dry render". This gives you all the information you need: peak, number of clips, all the LUFS values and LRA. Pushing the Stats/Charts gives you a webpage with even more information. My experience, I am a very very very amateurish hobby player, is using a very simple limiter as last FX (eg Reaper's own Event Horizon Limiter/Clipper with Treshold=0 and Ceiling=-0.2) and each render will be clip free.
    One reminder although: when your wav is clip-free, converting to mp3 might result in clippings. I guess some professional here will be able to explain why that is and hopefully also how to prevent this from happening when rendering your file wave.
     
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