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Vibration signals extracted from bearings are affected by noise, which can make their nature unclear and the extraction and classification of features difficult. In recent years, the use of the discrete wavelet transform for denoising has been increasing, but studies in the literature that optimise all the parameters used in this process are lacking. In the current article, the authors present an algorithm to optimise the parameters required for denoising based on the discrete wavelet transform and thresholding. One-hundred sixty different configurations of the mother wavelet, threshold evaluation method, and threshold function are compared on the Case Western Reserve University database to obtain the best combination for bearing damage identification with an iterative method and are evaluated with tradeoff and kurtosis. The analysis results show that the best combination of parameters for denoising is dmey, rigrSURE, and the hard threshold. 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