Too much compression

Hi everybody. I shot a performance with my digital Sony video Cam and had the camera fairly close to the speakers. It's pretty squashed, too much. Is there any way to repair that or am I just SOL?
Any magic plugin I'm unaware of? Thank you.

WSS

There are expander plugins, which conceptually do the opposite of compressors, i. e. they reduce the level of sounds below a given threshold to an even lower power. Mostly they seem to find use as noise gates to drop the level of unwanted signal (noise) to an inaudible level and thus remove noise from the recording, but they can function less agressively
 
http://www.practical-music-production.com/noise-gate.html
 
https://ask.audio/articles/4-tips-for-mixing-with-gate-expander-plugins/p2
 
 

Thank you gentlemen. I certainly understand the problems with video camera microphones and should have asked the sound company to give me a direct line into my hand held digital recorder and then sync them up.

I will experiment with expanding. I own wavelab so there's probably something in their.

WSS

That's what I was afraid of. I usually bring my tascam DR40 .
I have cleaned it up some wood with a limit or and some extra bottom 1.5 K and little high end.
WSS

I was once handed a "professionally" shot video that had not turned out well. Two high-end cameras' microphones had failed to work, so all we had to work with was audio picked up by two home-video type handheld camcorders meant to be safety backups. Their video quality was OK because the lighting was good, but the audio was horribly compressed, while noise was amplified by the cameras' AGC circuits.
 
I did not have access to any restoration software such as Rx, but was able to employ two types of processors to help. First was a transient designer. At the time all I had was Waves' TransX. I used the multi-band version and concentrated on the upper-frequency bands. Today I'd try Meldaproductions' MTransientMB first.
 
Second tool was an expander. Back then all I had was the Sonitus Compressor with a negative ratio. Today I'd turn to Meldaproduction's MDynamics plugin, which lets you define your own transfer curve (as well as having just about every other feature a compressor can have).
 
Other plugins to consider (caveat: I don't have experience with all of these):
Fabfilter's Pro-G
Hornet CompExp (free)
BT ExpanderGate (bundled with SONAR)
The Dynamics module in Ozone Advanced
DMG Compassion
Flux Pure Expander (requires dongle)
Flux Solera (requires dongle)