Someone has loaned me a cylinder record of about 1905, containing a one-only recording of a folksong by turn-of-the-
century railway workers. The record has an irregular hairline crack full length.
I am attempting to acquire a reasonable audio recording off this cylinder as being played on my restored Edison Triumph cylinder phonograph.
I'm recording straight into Cool Edit Pro 2 in my laptop, a process I've used successfully for many cylinder records.
Because of the hairline crack, every resolution produces a resounding "click".
In CoolEditPro, I can use automatic click removal, but that automatic process leaves behind a tiny moment of silence for everything it removes.
If I expand the wave display so I can identify and delete the clicks manually, there is no gap, the click simply disappears with no moment of silence, which is what I want.
I really want to avoid having to spend an entire weekend going through the WAV file click by click by click by nauseating click.
Does any one out there know if CoolEdit Pro can be told to delete such clicks automatically, without leaving behind a zillion tiny moments of silence?
Alternatively, is there an audio editor out there that can remove these clicks automatically without leaving behind these tiny moments of silence?
Or am I doomed to a weekend of agony?
Thoughts of others?
Regards,
Terry Smythe
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