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Dealing with distorted audio
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ok. thank you! 🙂
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Okay I managed to have look at the file, but sad to say, the moment I started to play it I knew it was well beyond repair.
In fact, if this audio file were a car and that car had broken down, then I would explain the kind of damage as “it was launched off a cliff and exploded into a fiery ball of of flying mechanical parts”!!!
It really is quite bad unfortunately. So much of the audio information had been destroyed during the recording process. Nonetheless, I had a go at it and tried to restore it the best that I could. There’s some improvement, but it’s far from being good enough to be usable.
If the were playing a CD or an mp3 during the dance, I’d suggest you try and get your hands on the actual song instead. Borrow it, buy it from iTunes or something like that. If it were a band you could always ask if they had any recordings of it. Bands often make recordings of their live music. Even if you have to spend a few dollars to buy the recording it would be worth it.
Then you could find the right part of the song, replace it with the recording, add in an appropriate sound effect of small crowd, compress it a little, add a bit of hall reverb and it should do the trick.
I notice the announcer says something towards the end, if you can avoid showing that part in your shot you should be fine, otherwise you may have to record that as well. You could even try recording yourself or a mate saying the same thing in a similar manner and mess with the pitch of your voice until you get something a little closer. Drop it into the mix with all the other sounds and reverb and it may just be enough to trick them.
You might have to tweak a few things until it all sounds as realistic and as natural as you can possibly manage.
This is your best shot really. Sorry I can’t be of more help. It was simply recorded way too loud. The microphone input should have had its gain turned down far enough to avoid this kind of situation.
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