Voice Muffled

[Brickley]

My Father in Law recorded his life story on cassette. The problem is it's hard to understand. Can Audacity "clean" it up?

[steve]

It may be possible to make some improvement - it depends what is wrong with it and how bad it is.

[Brickley]

Thanks for your reply. By muffled I mean it sounds like he is too close to the mike or it's recorded (volume) too high. I hope that helps a little. I'm using XP.

[steve]

By muffled I mean it sounds like he is too close to the mike or it's recorded (volume) too high.

Hmm... doesn't sound good - distortion is notoriously difficult to correct. You may be able to make some degree of improvement using the equalisation effect, but I don't hold out a lot of hope. If you can upload a short sample (preferably a few seconds in wav format), onto the internet (perhaps a file sharing site) and post a link, we could have a listen.