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Title: Is This Recording Salvagable?
Post by: DMBprez on July 09, 2010, 12:36:30 AM

http://www.sendspace.com/file/16khio

Apparently levels were too hot.  Bummed.

Anyone who can help would be great appreciated.

Title: Re: Is This Recording Salvagable?
Post by: Shadow_7 on July 09, 2010, 11:30:11 AM

Audacity has a clip fix filter.  Which seems to help on that mp3.  But you seem to have more distortion than clipping on that sample.  I guess it depends on what you consider salvaged.

Title: Re: Is This Recording Salvagable?
Post by: Napo on July 09, 2010, 11:57:40 AM

Izotope RX would be the one for you, but is it worth the price?  :(

Title: Re: Is This Recording Salvagable?
Post by: fmaderjr on July 09, 2010, 12:38:34 PM

I'm no expert and have never successfully fixed a clipped recording. However I'm pretty sure that no software could fix this. It isn't clipped as shadow_7 pointed out. It doesn't go above 0 dB-it looks like it brickwalled and peaks around -3 dB. I think all the clipping repair tools rely on the wave form showing actual clipping (going over 0 dB.) And even in the best case scenario, it's pretty hard to figure out how to use them successfully.