Recorded Vox Poorly and Now There's Clipping

jeffreykloss · Post by **jeffreykloss** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:46 pm

One of Many problems that happened w. the Recording when my buddies came to town... Honest enough to admit Booze played a factor, but Man, some of the Stuff I didn't see coming!

The too Loud Recording, though, is a total booze screw up!

so i'm hoping you guys will help me figure a way...
the singers' vox clips a few times through a pretty cool song, and i'd like to try to save it.

I AM IGNORANT about using DP's gate and compression options. I'm trying them, but like a blind chicken hunting and pecking!

I have DP5, M828kii

If you guys'll advise, I'll be thankful

Really Glad to Have This Resource,
jeff

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:58 pm

I hate to say it, but it sounds like the damage is done. I don't know of any way to save a clipped recording. You could go into the editor and do some magic with the pencil tool, but other than that...??

Phil

jrdmcdnld · Post by **jrdmcdnld** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:16 pm

I had done a live recording on my 828mkII where the bass guitar had clipped many times. I took the files into peak to examine the clips. For some reason, each time it clipped, it momentarily inverted the wave. If you are hearing a loud and nasty click everytime it happens, you may have a similar situation. All I had to do (in peak) was zoom in to the one or two samples that clipped and invert their phase to match the rest of the wave (make it flow like a sound wave normally does - like Phil said, you can use the pencil tool to do this). Sure, the wave still hits the ceiling, but at least there is no nasty click everytime it hits.

This may be irrelavant if your interface clips differently than mine did that day.

gregwhartley · Post by **gregwhartley** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:16 pm

Both these guys are right

. If you try to round off any square waves that came into the track as a result of digital clipping then you may be able to hide the mistake a little bit. However, if your pre was getting hammered with signal and your digital converter levels were clean then you're pretty much out of luck and stuck with a dirty vocal track (you could add a bit of distortion to the vox to hide the analog clipping, if it fits the style of the track).

jeffreykloss · Post by **jeffreykloss** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:52 am

Phil O wrote:I hate to say it, but it sounds like the damage is done. I don't know of any way to save a clipped recording. You could go into the editor and do some magic with the pencil tool, but other than that...??

Phil

Thanks guys... "The Damage is Done"
crud.

thanks for the ideas, though.

it'll give me something to try this morning.
-jeff

BradLyons · Post by **BradLyons** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:45 am

Hey, that sounds like the makings of a new song entitled "The Damage is Done"! Just trying to think positive for you, write and record a new song

ArchivalAudio · Post by **ArchivalAudio** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:55 pm

FWIW
if you don't record in 24bit
you should
then there is less reason to saturate levels
and less of a chance to overload them

much less noise floor at 24bit than 16bit

dont know how to fix it now though
have you run DC offset ?
or looked at the wave form and manually redrawn the wave?

peace