# There is a click or a cut-off breath where I deleted a word

A click at a join means the cut landed mid-waveform. Cast already fades a few milliseconds at every boundary to prevent it, so when one survives, the fix is to move the cut slightly — to the silence between words rather than the edge of one.

Sound is a wave. Cut it at a point where the wave is far from zero and the join becomes an instant jump, which the ear hears as a tick. This is why every editor fades a handful of milliseconds in and out at a boundary, and Cast does it on every cut without asking.

When a click still gets through, the join is usually inside speech rather than between it — the tail of a consonant, or a breath that starts before the word you removed. Nudging the cut a fraction wider, so it starts and ends in the quiet, removes it.

A cut-off breath is the same problem heard differently: the breath began earlier than you thought and the cut sliced it. Either include the whole breath in the cut or leave it in — half a breath sounds wrong in a way a full one never does.

Nothing here is destructive. The original recording is untouched, so widening or undoing a cut costs you nothing but the click.

**Edit by deleting text:** Every cut gets a short fade at the boundary, and nothing is destructive, so widening a cut costs you nothing. https://mubert.com/tools/cast/upload

## Related

- [What is a crossfade?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/what-is-crossfade)
- [What does non-destructive editing mean?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/what-is-non-destructive)
- [How do I remove filler words?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/remove-filler-words)

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Source: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/click-where-i-cut · Cast docs
Last updated: 2026-07-14