imported raw file hissy

[engaudio]

I had a bit of a melt down with a drive but managed to recover some of the (now headerless) wav files...
When I import them as RAW files they are very hissy, any known work around?
I've tried various combo's of offset etc with no luck so far...
Please don't suggest I use the noise reduction effect!

Also, I tried using a hex editor to recover the files (but don't really understand bext chunks/riff etc),
I know how big the file is in MB and can work out the length with some simple math.
Is there an easy way of re-writing the header? ie: just overwrite a new
file length and/or specs? (Files are 24b/44.1k)

Any help appreciated...

Regards,
Grant.

[steve]

First thing to try is Audacity 1.3.12.
If you are still unable to import correctly, is there a reasonably small file that you could make available for testing?

[engaudio]

Steve,
I'm using Audacity 1.3.12 with no luck.
The files are around 980MB so posting a sample for testing is a bit difficult...
Now I have some time on my hands I'm trying all methods of recovery, unfortunatly it looks like
most of the files are lost so far.

Grant.

[bgravato]

Did the files had that hiss before the crash?
Can you play them right with other media player (iTunes, VLC, etc)?

[steve]

If the files are now headerless you've clearly not recovered all of the data. As you now have partial files, even though you may have nearly all of the file, I don't think that it's going to be possible to get the necessary off-set correct without an awful lot of trial and error. Without knowing the exact offset you will get a lot of noise in the file and I'm sorry to say that I know of no way to calculate the correct offset.