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Garbling and distorting voice with (or without) sox
I may be wrong but this sounds to me like a simple ring modulator.
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Fixing distortion and low fidelity on a re-recorded audio cassette
Nothing posted by Schizomorph is wrong - if it's busted, it's busted...
However, one small ray of light is azimuth/stereo balance correction in software.
Back in the old days I had a bit of freeware (...
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Fixing distortion and low fidelity on a re-recorded audio cassette
I'm afraid you can't re-construct information (in the waveform) that has been distorted. The one side you can improve is playback quality by using a decent tape player with a good head.
Tape ...
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Microphone was too close, how to fix?
What you are asking for is pretty much like trying to take the sugar of a baked cake. There are tools that could help but I have no personal experience with them. From what I was told, iZotope RX ...
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Kylo Ren Voice Changer
Well I've tried to come close :
I used reaper, Izotope Trash 2 for saturation and Izotope Ozone 5 for multiband compression.
1. pitch shift - 3 semitones
2. Cut some ...
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What distortions are present in this audio file?
It looks like two unbalanced signals have been added together by just joining the wires together. The + sides added have hit the power rail and become flattened. The - sides added have made an "...
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Emulating a skype/opus bandwidth-drop tearing/stutter?
Try Speakerphone from Audio Ease. It has a dropped frame simulation you can hear starting from 15:20 in their Youtube video on this product page http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Speakerphone/...
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Cleaning up a 'distorted' audio clip?
I think it would be better to find other sound effects...
Or, better yet, make them yourself.
Cleaning those sounds will probably be a lot of work for a non ideal result.
Additionally those sounds may ...
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Extreme distortion/clipping plugin
Ohmicide from Ohm Force is specifically made to provide over-the-top distortion effects. Available as 32/64-bit Audio Unit, VST, and RTAS.
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Kylo Ren Voice Changer
I have just seen the following article where this sound effect is mentioned (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-craft-star-wars-sound-20160204-story.html). It is interesting to note ...
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How to know if studio monitors are loud enough?
Your first priority here should be your own hearing. Check the actual sound levels in the room.
Listening to anything over 75dB for prolonged periods (as we doo with music and sound design) WILL cause ...
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How to recreate the lead/distorted bass in Awolnation - Sail?
The base of the bassline is a sawtooth wave.
In order to recreate the bassline I used 2 Oscillators. One peek wave for maximal crispness and a sawtooth wave transformed 1 octave lower to add weight. ...
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Is it possible to fix such level of corruption in a buggy audio recording (sound distorded-choppy-Laggy)
No, I don't think you can fix that unless you have a fully equipped studio for forensic analysis, very good ears and a LOT of time.
What you're hearing has a number of problems. The greatest is that ...
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How can I automate finding bass distortion in improperly processed files?
Here is my understanding of your problem:
You have a set of recorded audio files stored using a lossless audio format.
I will assume that no saturation/clipping occured during the recording process, ...
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Does it matter if RMS meters hit red?
RMS is old school now. You should preferably use a plugin that measures the loudness in LUFS or LKFS. These are the same values only in Europe they use the name LUFS and in USA LKFS. For a target ...
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What are the audio settings that affect distortion on abrupt stop?
You need to re-edit the sound and implement a very short fade-in and fade-out at the start and end of the sample.
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What are the audio settings that affect distortion on abrupt stop?
Without seeing the waveform, the best guess is it could be DC Offset, or it could be a limitation of the audio engine.
If a waveform is at any non-zero value when the sound is abruptly stopped, then ...
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What do you call the problem with this audio from cassette tape, and how do I fix it?
This is a problem that occurred during the original recording. Sounds very much like the tape capstan rubbers are slipping and the tape is not being kept up-to-speed during the recording.
There is ...
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Is it possible to automate removal of hum and distortion in audio files?
Distortion in the form of clipping would be very difficult to remove: the waveform has been altered, and information on the missing part of the waveform has been lost.
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Is it possible to automate removal of hum and distortion in audio files?
Depends on what sort of result you want. Sure you can analyze whether a file contains more than a reasonable amount of 50Hz or 60Hz and you can notch that out, but the problem with this approach is ...
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How to deal with clipping/distortion in a custom synth app
You have to consider exactly how much headroom you have available to you in a 32-bit or 64-bit float scenario. The answer is - masses! You should be doing your mixing at 64-bit level these days in a ...
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Can I automatically select / remove clipping / peaks above -3dB in Reaper?
izotope RX has a de-clipping tool. This is the tool to use for this application. However in the future this should be used as a learning experience as to how best to record audio in a windy ...
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Irreversible functions to distort sound that still retain discriminatory features
You should investigate a linear predictive coding mechanism like Silk or Speex. Encode the speech with said codec then decimate the bitrate down to the minimum possible intelligible level. I defy ...
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How to create voice distortion like this amazing TED Talk
I wouldn't call this a distortion as it is a 'new', synthesized sound based on the original sound. A distortion would be the original sound, shaped (see waveshapers)
I believe this is a sine wave ...
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Checking for digital distortion of software synth
It sounds like you've got a decent understanding of the gain staging process, just for review purposes, here's a good article on the subject:
http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/gain-staging-your-...
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Audio recording at wrong speed
You can use ffmpeg or audacity to do this. Both are free.
In Audacity, use Effect > Change Tempo... or Effect > Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift
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Filter or Eq out certain parts of the spectrum without introducing transient distortion
I'd say your best bet would be to use the Spectral Repair features of Izotope's RX package. Unfortunately, if you're filtering any sound you are inherently likely to introduce artifacting of some sort;...
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Beyerdynamics dt880 32 ohm crackling noise on high volumes
32 ohm is a moderately low impedance and fairly easily driveable if your soundcard has a moderately powerful amp. Sounds like it's capable of overdriving the cans, and the drivers aren't able to ...
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Pluck in the intro Kensei Ummet ozcan
Quick analysis: It has a cycle running through it, like a cricket's chirp. Maybe tremolo, but probably part of the wave shaping process- a cycled wave, maybe originally a much lower pitched looping ...
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