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I have not experienced this with CEP or any other audio editing program. 
Perhaps there is some menu switch you need to set?

joe s


Terry Smythe wrote:
> 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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