Jeremiah:
For clipped signals where the waveforms end up flat-topped, have you tried
the free Pro Tools Bomb Factory plug-in called Essential Clip Remover?
I haven't tried it yet.
Lang
Distortion is tough. It's well nigh impossible to reconstruct a
signal which is recorded so hot as to be distorted beyond
intelligibility.
In mixing documentaries, I deal with a lot of stuff with occasional
clips where a voice or some other sound suddenly got loud. I find
multiple passes with Waves X-Click, set to almost maximum settings,
will usually take the edge off the clipping and make it playable
alongside non-clipped stuff.
Filtering (as with Waves Q10) can help, and volume enveloping as
Martyn suggests is a fab idea.
Haven't tried Soundsoap. I suspect it's worth playing with.
good luck
-jeremiah
>John Hartog (Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:38:45 -0000) described how he went about
>reducing unwanted noise using a parametric equaliser function of Cubasis
>VST. Even I could follow his explanation, and I'm very non-technical.
>Thanks John.
>
>That encourages me to try a bit harder to use the program I've got, which =
is
>Waves Q10. It has what I take to be an excellent parametric equaliser.
>
>However, right now I have a problem which I suspect is not amenable to the
>procedures John has described, and maybe there is no solution, but I'd be
>grateful for advice from this so-expert group ... even if only to confirm
>that there's no fix.
>
>A friend has some analogue audio cassettes of his father reminiscing about
>his experiences as a radio operator on ships early last century.
>Fascinating material, but unfortunately the tapes were made with the
>recording level way too high, and severe distortion has resulted in some o=
f
>it being unintelligible.
>
>There's some background noise which I can probably deal with. And if I
>can't, my good friend, Vicki Powys, has offered to help. But is there
>anything that can be done about the overload distortion?
>
>I would be extremely reluctant to take these unique tapes away from my
>friend's residence, and therefore I have copied one by playing it on my So=
ny
>Walkman WM-DC cassette recorder and taking the line-out to a Tascam DAT
>recorder. The Walkman in play-back mode shows the recorded level of the
>signal and this often went over +5 dB, which is why I fee reasonably
>confident the problem is overload.
>
>Any advice would be welcome.
>
>TIA
>
>Syd Curtis in Brisbane, Australia
>
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>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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