Peaked Sound

[Reddkryten]

Hi there.

I was part of a documentary which went really well, except for one small but important detail. Something went wrong with the sound recording and the audio has peaked, gone into those little red lights of oblivion.

I feel kinda guilty about this, although I wasn't responsible for the sound, I was on the camera and could have spotted that it was going into the red, but missed it. I can make some great arguments for it being my fault and some great arguments for it being someone else's/the equipments fault. But neither of these arguments are helping me sleep at night.

So is there any way to attempt to recover the audio to some degree?
Failing that, is there anyway to get rid of that grating sound? Maybe not good audio, but at least audio that isn't painful to listen to?

[google550]

Hmm. You could always do a pass filter and try to remove the louder harmonics.

(I don't think my vocab is right but you get my idea.)

You could also try and do some ADR, but the first one's your best object. What're you editing in?

[Reddkryten]

Pass filter. Okay, I'll try that out. Fingers crossed.

I think it is being edited in Final Cut Pro. ADR isn't an option (well it is, but it would be really difficult) because we were going around interviewing people, so there's no way of tracking down everyone again. The only thing I can think of is using people with similar voices.