Mouth De-Click — setup & help

Open the DMG you downloaded and double-click Greenlit Mouth De-Click.pkg. The installer walks you through it and asks for your Mac password once — that's macOS confirming you want to install for everyone on the computer. Nothing to drag, and no folders to find.

It installs both formats at once, so it works whichever your DAW uses: the AU for Logic Pro, GarageBand and TwistedWave, and the VST3 for Reaper, Audacity and others. You don't need to know which one you need.

Then rescan plug-ins in your DAW so it picks up the new plugin:

Logic Pro / GarageBand:it rescans on next launch — quit and reopen it. If the plugin still isn't listed, open Logic's Plug-In Manager and hit Reset & Rescan.

Reaper: Options → Preferences → VST → Re-scan.

Audacity: Effect → Plugin Manager → set Show to All → Rescan, then select the plugin and click Enable if it lists as Disabled — Audacity finds new plugins but leaves them switched off until you enable them.

Upgrading from an earlier version?The installer removes the old copy you dragged in by hand, so the plugin won't show up twice. Quit your DAW before installing — a host holding the old plugin open can keep it from being replaced.

Run the installer and approve the Windows permission prompt — it places the plugin in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3, the standard folder every VST3 host checks. Then rescan plug-ins in your DAW (Audacity: Effect → Plugin Manager → set Show to All → Rescan, then enable it if it lists as Disabled).

Installed with an older version and Audacity can't see the plugin? Earlier builds installed to a per-user folder that Audacity doesn't scan. Re-run the current installer and it moves itself to the right place.

Antivirus flagged the download? It's a false positive — here's the proof.

Sensitivity (0–10).How aggressively clicks are detected. The 4.0 default is the calibrated setting Greenlit's own mastering pipeline uses — start there. Double-click the slider to return to it. Higher catches softer clicks; lower keeps only the most obvious repairs.

Listen.Plays only what's being removed, so you can audition a setting. The plugin frames itself red while Listen is on — don't bounce with it on; that render is the removed clicks, not your narration.

Bypass.True passthrough — audio is untouched while it's lit.

The repairs counter.Counts repairs made since you last hit play, and holds the total when the transport stops. In hosts that don't report transport, it counts continuously. Surprised how high it reads? That's normal — see the next section.

Because most mouth clicks are tiny. Close-mic'd narration produces a near-constant stream of small mouth noises — a few every second of speech is typical — and almost all of them are too quiet to hear on their own. The counter reports every repair the engine makes, including all of those shallow ones, so a full chapter can honestly show thousands of repairs.

A big number doesn't mean your recording is in trouble, and it isn't how many clicks a listener would have heard — the audible ones are a small fraction of the total. It just means the plugin is catching the small stuff too. If you'd rather repair only the obvious clicks, lower Sensitivity and the count drops with it.

In Audacitythe number is also a running total: Audacity doesn't tell plugins when play starts and stops, so the counter can't reset each time you press play — it keeps counting from the moment the plugin loads.

The plugin reports its full delay — 400 ms — to your DAW, which shifts everything automatically so tracks stay aligned. You'll notice it when soloing the plugin on a live input, not in normal editing or mixing. Offline bounces always render complete.

Logic's Low Latency Modebypasses high-latency plugins by design — this one included. Turn Low Latency Mode off for editing and bouncing; use it only while tracking, when the plugin doesn't need to be in the path anyway.

44.1 kHz natively; 48 and 96 kHz sessions are supported. Below 44.1 kHz the plugin runs dry and says so on its face — switch the session to 44.1 kHz to process.

Plugin doesn't appear after install: rescan plug-ins in your DAW, and confirm the file landed in the matching user folder above (not the system one) — .component for AU, .vst3 for VST3.

Still stuck? Contact support — include your DAW and OS version.