How to… manage inevitable clicks

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Chop up an audio file and it’s likely you’ll inadvertently chop into a waveform at a point which isn’t ‘0’. If you open an audio editor and inspect a waveform closely you’ll see that its height, or amplitude, represents a snapshot of its volume at that moment in time and when audio passes through ‘0’, it’s momentarily silent. It’s too much to hope that chopping wherever you need an audio edit will always coincide with a ‘zero crossing’. So be ready with fades or envelope-shaping to avoid the pesky clicks which occur at the start or end of waveforms.

Even tiny fades of a couple of milliseconds will remove clicks.