"Muffled" Sound?

http://www.mediafire.com/?wmmozjl3zgk
This is a sound effect library I got. As you can hear, it’s muffled. Is there any good way I can fix this?

That’s two links. You need to be careful how you post.

The voice at the end sounds muffled because I think the original is a highly compressed sound file and somebody expanded it out to a WAV for shipping.

Once you compress sound, you get the compressor damage (honky, bubbling, muffled) and it never goes away. It doesn’t matter if you copy the work to a higher quality sound format. That just makes the damage a lot easier to hear.

Koz

You can use the Equalizer Effect to accentuate the high sounds…

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/voiceEq.jpg

…but the woman has pumping hiss noise behind her and the noise is going to get really loud if you do that. The blue line is a rubber band and you can push it around to get the effect you want.

Typically, you can’t recover from compression damage. The voice track doesn’t have any frequencies past 3KHz – like a telephone, so there’s nothing there to boost.

Koz