Waves X-Click

Key Information About Waves X-Click Software

• Fast removal of clicks and aggressive transients: ideal for cleaning short, pronounced defects (clicks, spikes, switch noise, digital crosstalk) without degrading the music.
• Vinyl and analog source restoration: designed to effectively process vinyl and shellac recordings while preserving the character of the signal.
• Visual control and easy adjustments: a wide display shows the last 10 seconds of processing and highlights clicks to speed up the workflow.
• Clicks-only listening mode: allows monitoring clicks exclusively to precisely refine settings and avoid artifacts.

What Waves X-Click Is For

Waves X-Click is an audio restoration plugin dedicated to reducing strong, short, isolated clicks that spoil a take or transfer. It is particularly relevant for vinyl digitization (and shellac discs) when unwanted transients appear, but it also adapts to modern productions: clicks and pops related to digital issues such as clock errors, sample rate inconsistencies, or crosstalk. Its goal is to clean the sound material discreetly, preserving dynamics, timbre, and useful attacks (snare drum, consonants, pizzicatos) without over-processing.

Main Features

Targeted click detection and reduction

X-Click focuses on "nasty" transients: those that are very brief, highly energetic, and clearly foreign to the musical content. The plugin isolates and reduces these events while aiming to preserve the integrity of the source signal. The approach suits both automatic cleaning and more meticulous, click-by-click work when you want full control over sensitive passages.

10-second display and immediate feedback on settings

The large built-in screen shows the last 10 seconds of processing, with clicks visualized in red. This visual playback makes adjustments faster: you immediately see the impact of your parameters on detected events, helping to find the right balance between effective reduction and preservation of musical transients.

"Clicks only" listening and attenuation meter

To avoid over-processing, X-Click offers a mode to monitor clicks only. This is especially useful for calibrating the plugin on vinyl transfers or heterogeneous archives where defect types vary from track to track. An attenuation meter indicates the amount of reduction applied, helping maintain processing consistency and limit artifacts.

Click shape selection and parallel track technique

Depending on the problem's origin, clicks have different signatures: some are very dry and digital, others wider and more analog. X-Click allows you to choose the click shape to better match the defect to correct. And when more reduction is needed, you can record a parallel track containing only clicks, then invert the phase to creatively and controllably enhance the removal of these defects within your session.

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