Preventing clicks and pops with Logic Pro

Preventing clicks and pops with a batch edit inside of Logic Pro.

Inadvertently adding bad-sounding clicks and pops onto your audio is one of the most common mistakes to see, when you’re first getting started with using a Digital Audio Workstation.

This happens because you actually need to be quite precise in how you make cuts to digital audio, in the same way that audio engineers back in the day needed to be precise with their razor blades when using analog tape.

If you get this type of edit wrong, and don’t make your cuts at exactly the point where your digital audio waveform crosses the centerline of amplitude (otherwise known as the zero point or zero crossing), a pop will occur as the playhead moves across that audio region. These pops and clicks can be really annoying to track down, especially inside of a complex project with a lot of different regions and tracks.

Because this edit is such a critical, yet tedious and time-consuming task to perform manually, there’s several different automated ways to do this inside of Logic Pro that can save you a lot of time, while also greatly increasing the quality of your finished audio.

In this video, I go over an easy technique to batch-edit all of the audio regions inside of your project to prevent clicks and pops, all in one go. You’ll want to add this step in right at the beginning of your audio mixing workflow.