Bad Noise from poor mic settings

[nidias66750471]

Hi there,

I just recorded some footage from an event, but unfortunately the Audio is terrible. I used an external mic on my dslr, but the gain I believe was too high so now the clip is useless. I would like to know if this is even fixable.

Please find the file here.

DSC_1311.MOV - Google Drive

If you can point me to some tutorials/resources to fix it, I would truly appreciate it.

[ryclark]

Unfortunately your file is too large to download the whole movie. Can you just post a clip of the audio from it? But it is very unlikely that anything can be done to improve the sound since it will probably be terribly distorted by overloading the analogue input chain of the DSLR. The audio input circuits in these type of cameras aren't very good and are very unforgiving of wide dynamic range audio. They are only really intended to record a guide track with decent audio being recorded separately on a portable audio recorder.

[nidias66750471]

Thanks for the response.

Here is another shorter clip

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Do0QP8wNeyLHDx9iLmNwcryIbr_Lh1Qz/view?usp=sharing

[chrisw44157881 · Accepted solution]

here's what I got, maybe 20% better... with declip and eq cut

clip test.mp3 - Google Drive

[nidias66750471]

Thank you so much! It sounds so much better!

I have to fix a couple of few clips. Could you kindly walk me through the steps?  I'm a novice.

Thank you!

Nidia

[chrisw44157881]

diagnostics, declip first

then normalize to -23 RMS

then eq band 542hz -12db q 54 and 1081hz -12db q 31 the freq analysis waveform

then adaptive noise reduction

I didn't use compression but that would probably have helped as well.

[nidias66750471]

Thank you!!