Remove distortion from mic too close to mouth?

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Remove distortion from mic too close to mouth?

Are there any recommended settings for removing the fuzziness from a tape recording (talking narration), where the person is has the mic too close or is too loud for it or both? The voice is pretty clear but the high pass filters aren't quite removing the fuzz from the maxing out of the levels.
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Jeff

G5 Dual 2.5, Mac OS X (10.5.3), Video OEM ATI 9600XT, 5.5 gigs RAM

Posted on Jul 24, 2008 12:37 PM

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Answer 1

muZZak

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Jul 24, 2008 1:06 PM in response to Jefferis Peterson

That's one of the hardest noises to eliminate, you'll have to try setting a noise print by isolating the noise alone in a segment and then reducing noise. The caveat is if the actual vocal pattern tails into distortion and it's not separate anything you do will generally just leave it sounding worse. But try reducing noise.

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Answer 2

Jul 24, 2008 1:46 PM in response to muZZak

Thanks. The background noise is almost nil, so it sounds like a high pass is about the best I can do, because the voice itself is the distortion...
Jeff

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Answer 3

Jul 24, 2008 2:09 PM in response to Jefferis Peterson

Check [RX from iZotope|http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/RX> it has a decent declipper.

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Jul 24, 2008 2:21 PM in response to Merged Content 1

Thanks. That looks interesting, but $350 for a family video correction is a bit steep, since there is no income from that for me... It does seem like a good product though.

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