Can this audio clip be saved?

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello everyone,
First of all: English is not my main language, so there might be some grammar issues in my text.

For a study assignment, we had to make a vlog and we used a borrowed vlog-camera to film everything. We did a few interviews with several people. When I came home and uploaded everything on my laptop, I found out that the audio is really really bad.

I managed to remove A LOT of noise from the audio, but its still very crackly and bad, listen for yourself: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EmI3vY_CiwW6sR0MKsofLXISL1Wev0zZ?usp=sharing

Can audio, with this terrible quality, be saved? If the answer is yes, how can I do this? Can anyone help me?
I’ve never used Audacity before and it’s kind of complicated.

Thank you in advance!

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Unfortunately that cannot be rescued. It was recorded too loud, which has resulted in the waveform being “clipped” (distorted).

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Kind of expected that already, crap. Thank you for answering.

Another question: could something like this be saved?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JnTaMJKsiUx2IWs4PuyOwTUvnmJIeR-W

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That one can be made marginally better by using the Amplify effect and the Noise Reduction effect.

Here’s a ‘before / after’ example to show what you can expect:

Information about the effects can be found from the links in this part of the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/index_of_effects_generators_and_analyzers.html

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Thank you for helping me. I will give it a try.