Topic: i need some remastering help

[highwayjill]

i'm not very familiar with soundforge, other than to record and resample wav files.  i tried to fix this one (the waveform pictured below) once before and didnt do all that great of a job.  I"m guessing the big spike at the bottom is where the ua5 battery started to die, as the volume drops drastically and fades to almost nothing over the next ~10 min.  is there an easy way to fix it, or would anyone be interested in trying to fix it for me?  the band wants a copy of it to use as the audio for a video they filmed that night, and i want it to sound as good as possible.

[Gordon]

you could try the pencil tool.  i just got adobe audtion 1.5 (cool edit pro)  it has a click pop remover and has worked great for me.

[Humbug]

Once you've done the click editing, you'll need to amplify the remaining part. Constant amplification is no good as you'll still have the gradual fade.

Not familiar with Soundforge either (I know Cooledit can do this, so I guess it'll work) , but what you want to do is something like an amplification that starts off at say 300% (this is a guess, based on what the wave form looks like above) and gradually increases, ending up at say 450%. Keep playing around so that it looks, and sounds the same as the wave form before the UA5 died.

Good luck.