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JohanAlthoff wrote on 6/20/2003, 5:49 AM
You can't. Distortion is lost information.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 6/21/2003, 4:38 AM
As distortion products may be largely in the higher frequency range, you could try some low passs filtering, but the effects are likely to be worse than putting up with the distortion.

Experiment a bit, but remember to get it right at the record end next time ;-)


geoff
bgc wrote on 6/21/2003, 3:48 PM
Not to start a tutorial pi**ing match, but I would say you can think of distortion as a loss of information as well as the addition of information. they're kind of tied together.
for example if you clip a sine wave (easy to do in sound forge with the volume control) the peaks dissappear (missing information) but if you look at the spectrum additional signal data is there (added distortion components).
JohanAlthoff wrote on 6/22/2003, 3:54 PM
I was thinking more in the sense of lost dynamics, which in turn lead to distortion of frequency information. Bottom line is, no matter what you try, you cannot "undo" distortion.
mcm wrote on 6/23/2003, 12:33 PM
I have had some success using Sonic Foundry's Click and Crackle Remover which is part of the 2.0 Noise Reduction package. I've had results ranging from slight improvement to very good. There are several presets so experiment and see if you can find one that helps.