De-clicking with a stand-alone CD recorder

Hi,

I have a CD player/recorder that is a stand-alone audio component.

Is there any way I can 'de-click' the way people do with their computers?

Anyone know of a component that will do this?

Thanks,
Dale

 

In a word, no.

 

Yes,
SAE made a device called the model 5000 that was an audio declicker. We used to sell them at Tech Hifi. The device had an adjustable threshold which set the level at which pops and clicks were blocked. There are 2 of them on Ebay now. Here is the link:

http://search.ebay.com/SAE-5000_W0QQsojsZ1QQfromZR40

 

Note these units work best on big, loud pops & clicks.
Not on softer surface noise.

 

Isn't that also true of software de-clickers?

 

I use a standalone CD Recorder for creating "raw" transfers of vinyl to digital. Then I rip the resulting tracks onto my PC and use Adobe Audition for declicking (my PC is in a different room than my main system).

This has worked very well for me over the years.

 

I used to have one back in the 80s. They distorted the sound, usually by attenuating the highs, and weren't really effective. Off-line oftware works a LOT better and more precicely than those analog-based units.

What you could do is burn your CD-R with your recorder as usual, put it into a computer, de-click there, and burn a new copy. But, if you don't have a computer, or a CD burner, or the right software, well...

 

Thanks! I seem to remember another in the same line of devices, from another maker in the early 80s...hmm, can't remember the name at all.

 

I have one of those SAE declickers--they work by detecting very sharp transients in the music and filling the gaps in with some of the sound before the gaps. It did OK at clicks, but sort of turned them into very dull pops, which for some old recordings was acceptable. For music with a lot of percussion, it will sometimes clip the tops off of the transients on the percussion if set too high and, which I began to notice later on, would actually smear the high frequencies a bit, so I quit using it for most listening. I would only use it now for seriously BTS ("Beat To Heck") records, and not for recording.