How to Fix Distorted Audio

Why is that when I apply this it only takes the audio level down. I can do the same thing with the audio gain and tool

Everytime I have a problem, Mike has a video. Thanks Mike!

Unfortunately, Audition that I use since it was CooEditPro time, does not fix distorted audio in most cases. This was school example with clean speech that was too saturated. Even after repair the "harshness" is still heard almost the same. It fixes that "samples" are not cut harsh, but the "smoothness" of audio is not restored. Even more evident is when restoring music recorded with low end device (smart phone). Bass kicks are often a bit lower than mids and this tool does not even picks them as clipped, because they are not clipped as flat line, but was rather clipped analog way since microphone is over saturated. Audition does not find clipped samples.

Also odd to me: if small portion of audio is marked way MORE samples is found as if 30 minutes of audio is market. Same for decrackle.

Soo good! But why is it being recorded like this in the first place 😢 my mic suddenly just started doing this

I hope this works against garbled scrambled audio(like redacted audio)

my own old recorded and written songs tracks has robot sounds and words every few seconds sound like inverted or switched, I have no idea if and how can I fix this,, those tracks are such a memory..

Interesting video but compression on your voice is very unpleasant.

I'm sure you are aware there are a number of ways audio can be distorted or types of distortion, many of which cannot be helped in the slightest with this method.

My son shot my band on stage at a live concert. The system was enormously loud with a ton of low end. Sounded great in the audience but the audio recording on the video footage is distorted as if it were clipping. Tried your method here and it came up no errors found. Any suggestions?

hello! declipper doesnt seem to affect any distortion in my audio which is weird since it is super distorted, any fixes to that?

Thanks

Hello i have such a bad problem in my recording track
All the track level matching but their is one word from go above the track level how can i fix that to match all track level?

Thank you so much for your lesson. I've recently started working in Audition, and this tutorial has fixed the problem I've been trying to clean up for a whole day. I'm very grateful that your shared your knowledge.

Not magical. Audition algorithm just go through file detecting volumes above certain level, than turn them down. One can achieve similar results with compressor. Declipper actually does not enhance/equalize recorded sound in any other way that could/would actually heal obvious distortion. It just turn dynamics down. So no magic. But great tutorial, thanks.

Dude I've been in audio for years and have an audio degree and didn't know this was here. AWESOME!

Okay. Let's say that you record at a conservative level where the loudest peak is between-12bd to -6db and some words of you recording sound distorted that you can clear hear it but the levels says something else?

Good day sir ...please help ....I recorded an audio during an event and the levels are low at -21 dB...but the audio sounds distorted?????please

Thank you so much for the video! I have some videos from concerts that are a bit distorted by the bass from the instruments, do you have a specific video that could lessen the bass in the audio. I tried using this video as a guide, but there are a few parts of the audio that sound funny. Thank you!

Again you delivered the goods Mike! I was editing a podcast of mine with some small sections of clipped audio and I was thinking of re-recording them because it sounded horrible, but a few clicks in Audition and it now sounds great.

I have one question
I was just sending my friend a video with start by 1nf1n1ty as the only audio and for some reason the audio was very loud and only the quiet parts even sounded like laserbeams
The normal parts sounded like pure static
I downloaded the odd audio and it was the file itself which was ruined in the process
Why did this happen

Helpful! Thank you Mike!!!!

This was AMAZING! Super helpful--I didn't have as bad of audio as what you encountered, but it works! Thank you so much!

Can this work with distorted sound on a video recording, of a concert? I forgot to enable the wind filter on my Nikon camera, resulting in heavy bass distortion.

Brilliant. Thank you Mike

DeClipper just made it more silent but didnt fixed the digital like sound in the voice... :(

I had never used Audition before and this tutorial perfectly helped me fix my problem.
Thank you so much.

Thx for relly .... you save me .... great video....!!!!!!!

Hey, I have a clip where the mic is not properly attached with the camera due to faulty jack and it has caused tremendous distortion to the clips. Can you please let me know if that can be fixed.

Hi Mike, that's great - thanks. I have a file that is not clipped, but the signal was distorted. Is this fixable?

Can you do this is bandlab got a heavily distorted track, any help would be soooooooooo appreciated

Huh?

Hi Mike, is't possible to send distorted audio to you, for fixing?

What a great tip, I just wish I had Audition! No idea if you'll see this comment in time/at all, but is there any way of getting a similar result with Audacity? I am completely new to audio, so please talk to me like a 5 year old!

Great ! Thanks .

My audio is far more distorted than your sample here but the peaks are not up/down and there are no Possibly clipped samples. Why might this be?

Does it work on a music recording. Have an old distorted recording i'd like to declip with minimal loss of quality

omg ! You save my life thank u !!!! You’re de beat

My Amplitude Statistics only had 4 options. Did I miss a setting?

thank you so much. the left channel in my video was garbage, i think the camera operator had a hard limiter on in the moment, but that didn't fix the distortion from the "peak".

Amazing fix, thank you! Saved an interview clip for me.

I have a question, will you fix me wheezing in audio will you remove it?

Phenomenal 🔥🔥🔥

Can u help me plzz..when i give the volume to normal ( it means 0) my recording voice is low but the track at the same volume is loud ...but when i give my recording at maximum volume it produces distortion ...n when i decrease both the volume of instruments n vocal ..it does not match to the standard sound 😭😭

nice totorial thanks a lot, but my waveform not reaching the red, and still distortion, why this happened ?. sorry for my bad english btw :)

i'm finding that the distortion remains after this technique is applied, the audio is just quieter... wish there was a way to fix that

What if you have WORSE audio than this?

YES! This helped a crazy amount!
Was using a H5 for an event tested sound and everything they played the music and tested the mic. when it came to it, they spoke so much louder than the testing and clipped majority of the audio!
You are a legend, have a great day