A Second Take on some audio

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Skieth
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A Second Take on some audio

Post by Skieth » Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:32 am

Hello i'm worked on some horribly damaged audio (in my view) from some videoa and am wondering if theres hope for them here are some screenshots of them zoomed in
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i'm postive theres no hope for them but i'm still fairly new to audacity and am seeking others Views if they can be saved great if not i will delete them shamelessly the techinal information is as follows orignal format:ASF edited:MPEG,(my video-editing didnt accept ASF so i had to change it first using Super) and again using super made it wav before attempting to edit

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Re: A Second Take on some audio

Post by kozikowski » Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:47 am

That's called clipping for producing waveforms that look like somebody took scissors to the top and bottom. It's actually overload and it could have been either analog (plugging a sound mixer wrong into a PC laptop) or digital (mismanagement of audio gain tools).

This is the buildup to me saying the show, if it's all like that, is trash. There is software that can mask damage caused by very brief, light overload that happens once every 20 minutes, but when every cycle of every sound waveform is damaged, you're dead.

Koz

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