You'll likely have to experiment a bit to find the tool that works best, and it would definitely help if you have a section of the audio clip where only the metronome is ticking.

Obviously you could mute that section for the final production, but since you want to remove that sound when other instruments are playing as well, see if the Restoration Assistant will work. Maybe start with Click Removal (after choosing Music). If that doesn't work as well as you hoped, try Hum Removal.

Depending on the exact sound of the metronome, Vocal Removal or Visual Repair may also work. Be sure to use the online help system (F1) and/or watch a few tutorials to help orient yourself

Thank you for your suggestions. There is a section at the very beginning where you only hear the metronome - so I could isolate the sound if that helps ... my problem is I don't know how to use any of these tools properly. I did have a go at click removal and at visual repair but to no success. I watched a couple of the tutorials but none of them seemed to be about isolating and then removing a particular sound. Anyway, I will keep trying

thanks again

In previous versions of AudioDirector, there was a tool that let you select a section of the clip that had only the unwanted noise and would subtract that from the rest of the audio on the clip. This was the tool used for that:



While the Noise Reduction tool is still present in the latest version of AD, it's been changed and no longer lets you sample the just a section with the unwanted noise.

If you wanted to share the clip maybe somebody here on the forum could find a setting or tool that did a good job of removing the metronome sound. Use the Attachments button below the forum's text box to directly upload it here