How would I use this tutorial? If your audio sounds too loud or is noticeably distorted, and when looking at the waveform, appears similar to the image below rather than the one above, this tutorial will show you exactly how to repair the audio as best as possible, without having to re-record!īefore starting: Looking for Setup instructions? Our recent Audacity 2.0.0 for Windows Installation Tutorial should do the trick!įor today’s walk-through, we’ll be applying the Clip Fix effect using Audacity 2.0.0 ( Windows 7) as run on Parallels a virtual machine booted in ‘coherence mode’, running on a MacBook Pro. In today’s post we walk our readers through the process of using our favorite free, open source audio editing software for PC, aka Audacity to fix this clipping and restore the recording to a normal, non-distorted state!
The second is that it has been recorded at too high of a volume or has been processed in a way that also pushed its boundaries beyond the audible spectrum. One is that the audio has been “overproduced” or, for a better lack of terminology, is battling against others in the loudness wars. There are only a couple main reasons clipping is present in an audio.
