muffled audio from a very old tape

[snafubaby]

hello. I captured a movie from a tape that has really bad audio. It's muffled. Any way to improve things? Please let me know.

thanks!

[Cornucopia]

Here's one possibility: Inverse EQ



Set the eq to match the inverse of what the current response is (you can tell this by a spectrograph/freq. plot)

The resulting EQ will be flat (although you should NOT try too hard on the very ends/edges, they should dip down anyway)

NOTE: This will ALSO boost up hiss/noise. That is to be expected - can you live with this?

Scott

[snafubaby]

i can live with the hiss. I just wanna hear the audio so it's not like they're talking with a bandana over the microphone. Do you recommend any software to fix things? thanks for the help!

[Cornucopia]

Any good audio editor app will do (particularly ones that accept DirectX, VST or other plugins):

Audacity
Adobe Audition (Cooledit)
Goldwave
Reaper
Sony Sound Forge
Digidesign ProTools
Wavosaur

even dbPoweramp and Nero's editor should be able to do that.

Scott