Cleaning up digital distortion on vocals??

[barryh74157200]

I recently did an interview on Skype and although numerous test came out fine, the actual interview came out with distortions. It sounds like it was too loud for audition to read clearly (It came through perfectly clear on the headphones) so the louder 50% or so of the interview has distortion. I saw online that the FFT filter can help this and have been playing around with it for hours, I can get it slightly better but I feel like I don't even know what I'm doing. I've included a short sample mp3 Can someone help me?

http://graphocast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Track-4_002_02.mp3

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

You may be able to mask some of the distorted sound, but what you can't do - and no software can do - is eliminate distortion. The reason is very simple; you have no undistorted original reference, and without this, no correction of what you've got can occur. And when distortion occurs, it's invariably complicated, depending on what in the chain has overloaded. In this case, it sounds more like a coding error somewhere in the chain than anything else, but it's hard to be definitive even about that, I'm afraid. I can't really analyse it properly as it's a compressed mp3 file, and the compression adds additional artifacts of its own. But once it's happened, whatever caused it, I'm afraid you're stuck with it.