Need Help Fixing Bad Podcast Audio

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May 6, 2019
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I have been recording podcasts for 7 years and have never run into this issue. Recording 2 voices with 2 different Yeti USB mics into multitrack rendered me some really bad, echoed/poppy/tinny/garbly audio that is unusable right now. I have linked a sample of an unedited clip from the recording. I have used Noise Reduction and DeReverb in the past for simple fixes before, but this one is giving me a real rough time. Anyone have advice on if this audio is salvageable? Thanks.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IRyzdmxSYP6N6cj4i5uzn85zqHsm91Hz

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ryclark

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Unfortunately I doubt very much that anything is salvageable from that recording. It is too garbled and broken up. Have you used that set up with the two USB mics successfully before? I can't think what fault could produce results like that but trying to use two USB mics together can be, I'm afraid, a recipe for disaster. What operating system is your computer running? It is normally pretty impossible to get two USB audio devices running at the same time in Windows.

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xflshow2020Author

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Thanks for the reply! Sorry I did not specify...

I recorded this through Google Hangout. Each of us were using USB mics in separate locations. I have done this hundred of times and never recorded audio like this. I always check the sound before we go into a show too and it was fine. This was very strange. No saving it, huh?

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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xflshow2020 wrote
No saving it, huh?

Not a chance, I'm afraid. It sounds as though it's a sort-of gated delayed howl-round that only happens when the level is high enough to trigger it. Have no idea what could have caused it, but seriously, there's not a hope in hell of saving it.

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