When using the "scan for clicks" function, what is a "normal" number of clicks that people are seeing? I get a pretty wide range but I'd say 1 click/sec is about average, it probably varies by a couple orders of magnitude though (say 0.25-4).
I'm pretty new at this, but surface noise drives me crazy and I've been trying to minimize it. I bought a Record Doctor vacuum record cleaner, and I also bought a decent turntable.
I just recorded a brand new record, "Change Becomes Us" by Wire, 2xLP. It even came in poly lined sleeves so I thought about putting it on the turntable as is, but I've heard people claim even new vinyl should be cleaned, so I cleaned each side just before playing it, gave it a final touch up with a carbon fiber brush, and recorded. I don't have a dust cover for my TT but I don't think I have a lot of dust.
Anyways, here are the click counts with the "Pop Music on Vinyl" preset (I believe that is the same as default except PP is set to 3 instead of 2. Sensitivity is set to 3)
side 1 (12:14) 1335 total = 963 clicks, 314 PP, 58 BP
side 2 (12:33) 4479 total = 1527 clicks, 2952 PP, 0 BP
side 3 (10:09) 1622 total = 725 clicks, 897 PP, 0 BP
side 4 (14:14) 1529 total = 1358 clicks, 104 PP, 67 BP
I debated turning BP off since there is no brass on the record, but you can see it triggers sometimes.
I was monitoring the audio as I recorded it and I didn't hear a lot of noise so I expected the counts to be a lot lower. I'm listening to the recording now and it all sounds really good to me, there's almost no noise - of course the real test will be when I have my headphones on tomorrow (which is when it really bugs me - the noise is nowhere near as bothersome through speakers, but unfortunately I have to listen to headphones at work).
Any advice? I didn't spend a whole lot of time doing A/B between corrected and uncorrected audio, but when I did (both while music was playing and during fadeout or silence) I usually didn't notice much difference despite all the "corrections", which seemed to mostly be small - just a guess but almost all of the widths are 30 or less, and at least half are probably below 20. Anything over 50 is rare and I only spotted one over 100... although those numbers don't really give any sense of the amplitude of the correction.