I'm about to mix a few events where the podium mic was recorded somehow with clipping happening. It's pretty horrendous. But, I'm stuck with it and being asked to fix it.
I've got X-Crackle, but what else do you guys use to handle clipping and distortion?
BF Essentials Clip Removal doesn't work most of the time.
Curious to what you guys use?
Thanks!
I've seen a tutorial for Izotope Rx that I remember being pretty amazing. Don't have the link handy…
I had the worst archival footage, it was all clipped to the point where the waveform was literally flat! Izotope RX's Declipper worked wonders to help smoothen things out. I also used it on an actor's scream, which was badly distorted, and it helped a lot.
+1 for iZotope RX. It's an excellent tool! That and Spectral Analyzer are worth the money alone for the plugin.
I've used both of those in the past, and they're pretty good. The Sonnox version is a good one as well.
You might want to try an expander too, to smooth out those squared off peaks/troughs.
+1 On the RX... used it on a Forensic recovery from an answering machine tape- did an amazing job on digging a voice out of massive distortion. Another trick I've used is to feed the signal to a tape emulator plug-in. You can use it to "round off" the hard clip to a softer less nasty sound.
Another vote for RX! Just got RX 2 myself and it's amazing.
