Smoothing out distortion

[Neil Rutman]

I'm doing audio clean up for a web pilot and was wondering what you guys do
(if anything) for moments that are noticeably distorted. Re-recording is not
an option as a poorly captured but very good live performance is the focus
of the show and it has some moments that make you cringe. Is there a good
plug for this?

Thanks,

Neil R

[Mike Rivers]

On Dec 9, 5:44 pm, "Neil Rutman" > wrote:
> I'm doing audio clean up for a web pilot and was wondering what you guys do
> (if anything) for moments that are noticeably distorted.

It depends on the nature of the distortion. You can try re-drawing the
waveform if it's not too many cycles that are distorted. Sometimes a
de-clicker (the sort of thing you'd use to clean up a vinyl record)
can help.

You're in the woods here and you have to figure out which way to go in
order to get out quickest, or how far you can get out.

[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

Neil Rutman wrote:

> I'm doing audio clean up for a web pilot and was wondering what you
> guys do (if anything) for moments that are noticeably distorted.

Distorted or clipped?

> Neil R


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

[Scott Dorsey]

Neil Rutman > wrote:
>I'm doing audio clean up for a web pilot and was wondering what you guys do
>(if anything) for moments that are noticeably distorted. Re-recording is not
>an option as a poorly captured but very good live performance is the focus
>of the show and it has some moments that make you cringe. Is there a good
>plug for this?

Try the CEDAR decrackler. Yeah, it's intended for vinyl disc noise problems,
but it makes clipping much less offensive.
--scott


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[Arny Krueger]

"Neil Rutman" > wrote in message
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> I'm doing audio clean up for a web pilot and was
> wondering what you guys do (if anything) for moments that
> are noticeably distorted. Re-recording is not an option
> as a poorly captured but very good live performance is
> the focus of the show and it has some moments that make
> you cringe. Is there a good plug for this?

Adobe Audition has a facility for restoring the peaks of clipped waveforms.

[Paul Kotheimer]

On Dec 10, 9:53 am, "Arny Krueger" > wrote:
> "Neil Rutman" > wrote in message
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> > I'm doing audio clean up for a web pilot and was
> > wondering what you guys do (if anything) for moments that
> > are noticeably distorted. Re-recording is not an option
> > as a poorly captured but very good live performance is
> > the focus of the show and it has some moments that make
> > you cringe. Is there a good plug for this?
>
> Adobe Audition has a facility for restoring the peaks of clipped waveforms.

Soundforge Noise Reduction has a "clipped peak restoration" plug in
that does a good job if the distortion is slight. Basically rounds
out those flattened peaks and attenuates in order to make room for the
peaks instead of mesas.