Topic: Major clippage, how best to edit/fix/minimize?

[Ychocky]

Please be easy on my lack of knowledge!

Hello, taped The Good the Bad and the Queen in Toronto last weekend.

Source was as follows: SP-CMC-2A > SP-SPSB-6 > 1/8 to 2x 1/4 adapter > M-Audio Microtrack >

SanDisk

First recording with the Microtrack. I had the level selector on M (microphone)(my mistake)

and at the end of History Song I reallised my error, I again goofed and set the level to H

(high?) and then downto the correct L (Line) input level.

The rest of the recording went without incident. I was really pleased with my tape.

Now down to editing!

You can see in the attached image the setting chage mistake.

The zipped FLAC is just a quick listen.

How do I address this "blip"?

I'm missing the "peaks" of this section of audio, I can reduce the volume and It's still a

square of course.

Do I fade out and back in?

Thanks for the assistance.

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

There is no fix the clipping, so you're sort of SOL there.

If you're asking about what to do with that section, I don't think it really matters. If I screw up a recording like that I just keep it to myself and chalk it up to a lesson learned. I don't like seeding messed up recordings, or recordings that don't sound up to my standards (which is really that high). If it's listenable, I seed it. If not I just keep it for historical purposes.

If you want to seed it do whatever you like with that section. But I would certainly note the error in your TXT file so people downloading it know what they're getting into.

[Bart.VL71]

When I encounter minor clipping, I use Sony Clip Restoration (a DirectX plugin) to try to generate the missing peaks, and afterwards I do a Waves X-Crackle run to get rid of some of the audible crackling. Works pretty well, but don't expect it to sound "great". Major clipping is pretty much unfixable imo.

[hawghunter]

Looks like it is only 3 seconds, right? Just edit it out and have the song cut in and note in your info file. Thats what I would do, if the rest of the WAV is like the latter portion of your shot.