Miracle Needed: Fixing Clipping after recording...

Run it through Boost 11. I'm not sure if Studio has that plugin. Any limiter should do a decent job. If not try putting a volume-gain envelope on it.

Craig, Studio does have Boost11, but since the track was recorded on a Tascam 2488Neo and then transferred into Cakewalk, the clipping sizzle was already in the track.. Boost11 just made it um... worse.

Crg

Tkrain


Craig, Studio does have Boost11, but since the track was recorded on a Tascam 2488Neo and then transferred into Cakewalk, the clipping sizzle was already in the track.. Boost11 just made it um... worse.

That is total B.S. dude.
 

Tkrain is right Craig.
If the clip and it's distortion got printed, it's going to be there even if you lower the volume - the EQ won't remove it, but it will mitigate it some if you catch the right frequency.
 
Brian

The reason boost11 would amplify it is because:  Once that audio hits zero, it gets ping-ponged back into itself.  If you clip, your distortion saturates that audio.  Eq will not remove, or fix this.   Certain digital clipping is difficult to hear.  Because digital clipping can be very subtle.  However, your linked track on sound cloud is crackling..  that must of been some kind of over gained recording.

Yeah, I guess I didn't state that clear enough in the opening statement, hehe. He overgained his recording, and that got the crackle (I think I called it more of a sizzle). I've advised him in the future to watch his meters a bit more carefully and not overload his recorder.

I'm definitely suggesting to him that he re-record the track.. in fact, if I can, I'm going to have him do it right into my DAW instead of on his Tascam. For now, I've got the crackle "out". You can still tell the higher peaks aren't the same quality as the quieter sections, but in the mix it's good enough for his demo.

Ok all you coders. Now there's a VST plugin that would sell!! The Clipper fixer. Just send me 1% for the idea

M_Glenn_M


Ok all you coders. Now there's a VST plugin that would sell!! The Clipper fixer. Just send me 1% for the idea

Believe it or not, there's something out there in the freeware market that's supposed to do this sort of thing (ReLife):
 
http://www.terrywest.nl/utils.html
 
Haven't had a chance to run it through it's paces yet, but the other stuff from Terry West is pretty solid.

since it is a synth, recording it again should be a snap.

Just lower the master  levels in the synth control panel and export it, mix it whatever.   It;s midi.... not like you have to play it all again.... right? 

Once that audio hits zero, it gets ping-ponged back into itself.

Sometimes you can't re-record a part without destroying the value of the project and anything that you can do to improve or salvage the track is a winner. 

If the clipping isn't too severe you can manually edit the wave forms (unwrap the ping pong) and fix things or at least make them tolerable.  I had to do this with a vocal track not that long back where the track clipped in places.  For the most part it worked, it was just horribly time consuming.  I don't know if that plug-in mentioned earlier would have done anything to fix the track but I would have been happy if it shaved a couple of hours off the project.

Edit: 
The clipping on the track mentioned wasn't a leveling off of the waveform (like a haircut) but more like an inversion (ping-pong) when the levels hit max - so I had something to work with.  If it had been flat line clipping (ala the hair cut) the editing wouldn't have worked.

In the future , if you need it, the clip restoration in Audition (formerly Cool Edit and Cool Edit Pro) is quite good. It even works (often, not always) on flat-line clipping. Actually, pretty much all clipping is flat-line, the issue is really how long it flat-lines for.