Re: [Audacity-quality] bugs in 'Click Removal'

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

On 12/17/2013 12:26 PM, Gale Andrews wrote:
>
> | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...>
> | Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:41:03 -0800
> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] bugs in 'Click Removal'
>> On 12/16/2013 8:30 PM, Vaughan Johnson wrote:
>>> On 12/16/2013 8:39 AM, Gale Andrews wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>
>>>> * I've never seen "Click Removal" reduce a spike - have others seen
>>>>      that? It seems to remove spikes or not, as I would expect from
>>>>      what it does.
>>>
>>> Right, it's a very flawed effect. That's why I started this.
>>
>> Re-reading your comment, I see you're posing that "reduce" could be
>> interpreted as about spike level, rather than number of clicks it handles.
>>
>> As I understood it, this follow-on has been about percentage of obvious
>> (i.e., very audible) clicks/pops removed. As I understand the testing,
>> that's about 1/3 of them on average, so not "removal".
>
> I see it that Click Removal removes those clicks it detected.
>
> I see it that Noise Removal removes (as per its "Remove" button)
> the noise that it reduced (according to its Noise Reduction slider).
>

That's Steve's 'stain remover' comment -- basically false advertising, 
overstating its efficacy when it doesn't universally remove all stains.

- V