Distorted piano track – any thoughts?

[Andy Abulafia]

thanks Mike!

Yeah to be honest I think my ability to discern audio is very limited, i.e. you mike are not the only proud owner of tin ears 🙂

I am really not sure I can tell (just listening) to the tracks which are much better although I agree maybe the Extreme Analog High sounded better. Not so hard on the ears. Repeatedly listening to all the clips, I am altogether not sure exactly if the distortion is blended with some other piano artifact as there is a shrill ringing/buzzing sound when he hits some of those notes. Gosh, I don’t know… probably a lesson learned is to get a decent sound test going BEFOREHAND 🙂

I looked into the tool – does look pretty interesting.

thx again.

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[Mike Kujbida]

Andy, my suspicion is that the original audio was too distorted for any tool to effectively work its “magic”.
I’ve used iZotope before on audio files that were mildly clipped and it was able to recover them almost perfectly.

“Gosh, I don’t know… probably a lesson learned is to get a decent sound test going BEFOREHAND :-)”

Been there, done that, paid the price with really bad audio 🙂