Mixing and Mastering AIClicks, crackle and damage repaired.
Vinyl crackle, digital clicks, dropouts and the pops left by a bad edit are short, sharp events rather than steady noise, and they need a different kind of repair.
This finds those events and rebuilds the waveform across them, so the damage disappears instead of being turned down.
Key points
- Repairs clicks, crackle and short dropouts by reconstructing the waveform.
- Includes mains hum removal for recordings with electrical buzz.
- Works on vinyl transfers, damaged files and bad edits.
- 2 tokens per run.
What it is good for
- Vinyl and tape transfers. Remove surface crackle from a needle-drop.
- Damaged digital files. Repair the clicks left by a corrupt transfer or a dropped buffer.
- Bad edits. Fix the pop left when a cut landed off a zero crossing.
- Archive work. Bring an old family recording or a rehearsal tape back to something listenable.
What it costs
Audio Restoration costs 2 tokens per run. Tokens work across every tool, so one balance covers everything here. A Studio subscription at $19.99 a month includes a monthly allowance and the full engine alongside it.
Common questions
What is the difference between this and the Noise Reducer?
The Noise Reducer handles constant background sound: hiss, hum, room tone. Restoration handles discrete events: clicks, crackle and dropouts. Many old recordings need both, in which case restore first and then reduce what is left.
Can it repair a track that clipped during recording?
It can improve short clipped sections by reconstructing the flattened peaks, but a recording that clipped continuously for minutes has lost information that cannot be invented back.
Related tools
- Noise Reducer (1 token) — Hum, hiss and room tone out, detail left alone.
- Spectral Editing (2 tokens) — Lift one sound out of one moment, or clean the whole file up.
- Audio Converter (free) — Convert your audio into the format you need in seconds.