Fixing really bad audio

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I'm trying to `fix' some video recordings that were made on a sony
vx2000 with the audio set too low.

You can barely here the audio so when I amplify it with Adobe audition
to the point where it can be heard well, I've introduced some really
bad rumbling hissing etc from going way beyond what the source
recording will allow.

I have Adobe Auditon, SoundForge8 and trial of Sonar6 on hand. Of
those, auditon seems to have the most built in tools for dealing with
this problem but then I'm a novice with all of them.

I wondered what, if any software there is for this particular kind of
`fix'.

Has anyone written software expressly designed for fixing bad audio?

[Arny Krueger]

> wrote in message

> I'm trying to `fix' some video recordings that were made
> on a sony vx2000 with the audio set too low.
>
> You can barely here the audio so when I amplify it with
> Adobe audition to the point where it can be heard well,
> I've introduced some really bad rumbling hissing etc from
> going way beyond what the source recording will allow.

Post a MP3 of it on one of the file-sharing services, if you want an
informed opinion about what to do with it.

> I have Adobe Auditon, SoundForge8 and trial of Sonar6 on
> hand. Of those, auditon seems to have the most built in
> tools for dealing with this problem but then I'm a novice
> with all of them.
>
> I wondered what, if any software there is for this
> particular kind of `fix'.

> Has anyone written software expressly designed for fixing
> bad audio?

Yes, a ton of it.

You've already got Audition, which is often used for the purpose.

Noise reduction approaches are very specific to the kind of clean-up that is
being attempted.

Without hearing your problem, the solution could be just about anything.

[AZ Nomad]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:49:37 -0500, > wrote:


>I'm trying to `fix' some video recordings that were made on a sony
>vx2000 with the audio set too low.

>You can barely here the audio so when I amplify it with Adobe audition
>to the point where it can be heard well, I've introduced some really
>bad rumbling hissing etc from going way beyond what the source
>recording will allow.

>I have Adobe Auditon, SoundForge8 and trial of Sonar6 on hand. Of
>those, auditon seems to have the most built in tools for dealing with
>this problem but then I'm a novice with all of them.

>I wondered what, if any software there is for this particular kind of
>`fix'.

No. If your sources are crap, no about of fiddling is going to
change it. You can make speech more intelligible, but you'll never make
it sound good.


>Has anyone written software expressly designed for fixing bad audio?