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musicvid10 wrote on 10/8/2008, 9:38 AM
**It was recorded very hot and is distorting on most of the file. **

Sorry, not much you can do, there is certainly no fix. You might get some improvement with something like Izotope, but it's a $350 application.
dvideo2 wrote on 10/8/2008, 10:25 AM
any other opionions?
jbolley wrote on 10/8/2008, 10:50 AM
Sound forge has a clip reduction tool but its not going to undo all the distortion. Unless you're preparing something to play back in a criminal trial you're out of luck.
Sorry.
MarkWWW wrote on 10/8/2008, 11:31 AM
It depends on what you mean by "fix".

If you mean "make it sound like it was recorded correctly with no distortion" then you've got no chance. Arrange to have the speaker re-record their material properly.

If you mean "improve the intelligibility of the speech, even though it will still sound distorted and badly recorded" then you may be able to achieve a useful improvement by judicious use of filtering, declipping, etc. Post a sample of the audio and some of us will probably have a go at it and see how much we can improve it.

Mark
dvideo2 wrote on 10/8/2008, 12:22 PM
are there any free declipper filters that i can download? Vegas 8 doesn't seem to have any.
Baagoo wrote on 10/8/2008, 2:49 PM
agree with the others but you might try the free trial of Sony noise reduction software which has the clipped peak restoration plug-in along with some others that may be useful to you.