Topic: Are pops fixable...?

[macroint]

Taped a show this evening on the NJB3 and after transferring to the computer and extracting, there are a crapload of pops throughout. Listened on the NJB3 and it has the pops. Is this fixable?

None of my previous shows has an inkling of a pop...but this was is riddled. Nothing different with my set-up, except the addition of a 1493 cable. There was a guy next to me running video and the sound system sounded a bit ragged, otherwise everything is the same. Should maybe the optical cable not be intertwined with the AD-20? I don't know...


jeff

[Ed.]

i don't know what the 1493 cable is, nor do i know what you mean by intertwined with the ad20...so one of those might be your problem.  however, i've noticed pops and clicks in my recordings with the jb3 before as well.  however, in my experience i always try to do a disc cleanup and format before i go taping.  for some reason whenever i do that, i never have pops or clicks.  it seems that after i fill the hdd up aways, i always have problems.  other people don't have this problem and never have to do anything...so i dunno.  but i don't think it'd hurt it, plus it keeps the hdd clean.

granted, you don't always get the chance to do it, but i still try to do it as often as possible.

[caymanreview]

depends on how severe the pops/clicks are. i had a few probs with my last setup of V3 > 410 > laptop having clicks, and 9 times outta 10 i could clean them up in wavelab 5

[Scooter]

Try using waveform restorer in Wavelab.  It's under the Process pulldown.

[BC]

for small digi-pops I draw them out using the pencil tool in soundforge.

[dklein]

sounds like maybe your optical cable was wriggling around

[teamakg]

i don't know what the 1493 cable is, nor do i know what you mean by intertwined with the ad20...so one of those might be your problem.  however, i've noticed pops and clicks in my recordings with the jb3 before as well.  however, in my experience i always try to do a disc cleanup and format before i go taping.  for some reason whenever i do that, i never have pops or clicks.  it seems that after i fill the hdd up aways, i always have problems.  other people don't have this problem and never have to do anything...so i dunno.  but i don't think it'd hurt it, plus it keeps the hdd clean.

granted, you don't always get the chance to do it, but i still try to do it as often as possible.

i'm assuming he's referring to a 1394 firewire cable that he used to transfer with.

[macroint]

i'm assuming he's referring to a 1394 firewire cable that he used to transfer with.

  Right, I bring the 4-pin to 4-pin cable with me in case another taper with a NJB3 wants to transfer my copy after the show...still unsure what the problem was that brought on all those pops, but i taped last night, similar conditions, and the show came out perfect. Oh well, live and learn.


jeff

[macroint]

Try using waveform restorer in Wavelab.  It's under the Process pulldown.

  Any recommendations on an economical place to buy it? Not sure I want to spend $199 right now....


jeff

[caymanreview]

Try using waveform restorer in Wavelab.  It's under the Process pulldown.

  Any recommendations on an economical place to buy it? Not sure I want to spend $199 right now....


jeff

pm sent

[AlphaQuam]

I second the formatting recommendation by SpeshulEd.  I had a recording riddled with "diginoise" and I couldn't figure out why.  I thought I'd accidentally left my UA-5 @ 96kHz, or perhaps the optical cables were jiggling.  But then I reformatted my JB3 and the problems vanished... recorded 4 shows with no issues at all.  I doubt it was your firewire cable, that shouldn't cause any such issues.  You could always listen to the recording on your JB3 to verify.

As for your question on how to remove it... I've had decent luck with declick/descratch plugins.  You can mask the pops pretty good.

[macroint]

pm sent

  +T....thanks for all your help Dustin!

[caymanreview]

my pleasure. anything i can do