need help (audio / video related)

This is what we used at the studio. http://www.tcelectronic.com/Finalizer96k It was great for premastering and it also contained noise reduction capabili-f**king-ties. It costs around a grand. There is software that you can try as well although I don't know if they will do as good a job. Try Pro-Tools,Acid 4.0, etc. They might have some sort of onboard effects that could help. Purchase a compressor/limiter that has a noise gate. You can pick up a decent one for around $75 - $100. Try Alesis.

How did my post end up on top?

Peace,
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Not really, as the distortion was recorded on your media. This should really be in the A/V Editing forum. That's what its there for

only thing to do would be to sync the original song over top, but that would be so milli vanilly.

Uriel,

There is software available that contains noise reduction algorithms and other programs to help cleanup distortion. I don't know how bad your sh!t is, so I can't guarantee that these would work...plus I doubt you would want to spend the money on this type of software just to solve this one problem. We did this type of thing at the recording studio that I used to engineer at all of the time. My advice is to just keep the concert in your memory.

Peace,
Roided

SoundForge may clean it up a bit, but garbage in usually =s garbage out. I know if its like my cool pix s1 the audio is just gonna suck unless its very controlled. Hey better than no vid. Rk

I saw signs for that concert in Mostar. At first I saw Prodigy and thought cool, I'd like to see them. Then I saw it was in Zagreb and I was like WTF are they advertising here for??
We had David Copperfield in Sarajevo on 1 OCT, there were at least a billion signs for that. I guess it was huge here, but I haven't found anyone I know that went to it.

Uh see my post in the other thread...

THere are some tools that can be used for Minor problems and minor repair, either via filters or drawing the wave by hand, but really once it is distorted it is trash in the digital world. SOrry about that.

The Finalizer mentioned here is nice for a mastering processor, but would not repair a crap recording.

The other thing worth clarifying is the limiter/compressor. A Limiter would be a VERY good thing to put on your recordings, setting the gain right would be better. The limiter will help prevent the occasional clips from a properly set gain when things get a bit out of hand on stage. They wont do crud for you though once the audio is recorded digitally. A compressor can also help, again only while in the recording process, to prevent clipping by squashing some of the dynamic range, then again it can also make things sound like crud. If I remember right Prodigy does do a fair dynamic range dont they? Unlike most modern pop music anyways, a compressor may help to squish that down, but wether or not you actually want to do that is an artistic choice to be made by you(Or whoever is paying for the recording in some cases) To help prevent the clipping it would have to be done during the recording phase, but it can always be applied to recorded material later and is better to record without it if you can, between the two I would choose to record with the limiter myself.

But setting the gain correctly to start with is the best solution. Sorry about your recording.

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