i edit and record tapes for a radio programm and i have a cassette tape and the voice is alittle distorted and i was wondering does anybody know how to reduce the distortion? i have vegas2.o sound forge cd arch and waves bundle ant help would be great. thanks darren
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 ;-)
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).
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.
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.