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Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

A curse only those in our world endure. With it, the madness grows with every command

Turn left

There it is again! Don't you hear it?
No.

Turn Left

I'm switching voices.
No, I like her.

Turn left

And we've come full circle as the command repeats

Turn left

Arrggghh!

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My current GPS voice has a mouth click at the beginning of Left and I feel it's driving me insane.

Bruce · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:59 pm Post subject:

I too am obsessive about mouth clicks, especially my own, so when I hear them in professionally produced audio I'm dumbfounded. I don't always get to hear the final version of things I've voiced "live", i.e. by ISDN, so all I can do is pray the producing engineer caught the offenders. Sigh.

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Kim Fuller · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:14 pm Post subject:

It's why I sometimes wince now, listening to NPR. I love NPR, hardly listen to anything else - but sometimes the mouth noise makes me twitch.

Bailey · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:31 pm Post subject:

And now a question from the peanut gallery.

Is is possible to isolate mouth clicks/noises as a filter, and remove them from the track later? Or would that possibly compromise other word structures?
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SteveToner · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 6:49 pm Post subject:

There are declick plugins (e.g., iZotope RX) that do a pretty good job. Not really a "filter" though.
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Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

If I'm in control of the recording, I always edit out mouth noises before sending the file. I need to get better at just reducing/eliminating them to begin with.

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

It also bugs me when I hear mouth clicks in music!

I like the late '90s band Black Box Recorder - but there are clicks all over their singing. Frown

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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:10 am Post subject:

Mouth clicks are like zits. Your own seem bigger than everyone else's.
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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

Let's not forget nasal clix. Just like mouth clix only from your nasal cavity.

Bruce · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:02 pm Post subject:

Worst of all, the castanet clicks from your wife practicing for her flamenco class in the next room.

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Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

Eddie, I fight those daily. I have a deviated septum and words that end with an S sound get a small pop 2/5 times. Also, words that contain a combination of S and N, like Disney or business, get a nice pop too. Strangely, I never hear it on the TV, only when editing.

Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:36 pm Post subject:

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iannyc · Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 6:29 am Post subject:

^^^ ooo dig it

Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

Thanks, Eddie. Unfortunately, I'm already doing just that. A few years ago I bought a new l=1&dpID=31ACScDXs1L&ref=plSrch" target="_blank" class="postlink">upright bass music stand that's 72"high. Works amazingly well for what you described.