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.
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.
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.
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.