Repairing audio help

[timmyp]

I have a cartoon clip that has some messed up audio and I'm wondering if there's a way to fix it.

Basically, the sound goes up and down in volume as the clip plays. It's kind of like one of the channels kicks in for a second creating a louder volume and then drops right back out to the lesser volume. This happens sporadically throughout the clip.

I have Goldwave and it shows both channels present, but with the volume spikes I hear.

Is there a filter to smoothen this out, or is it going to be a very manual process?

Here is a screen shot:



Thanks!!

[housepig]

I'm not familiar with Goldwave, but see if it has a Normalize filter - that may help even out the file.

Or try compression, setting the compressor so that only the stuff that's too loud is over the threshold.

(If Goldwave doesn't have these tools, try Audacity - what it doesn't have built in, you can find as freeware VST Plugins).

[muskgrave]

IF both channels are playing essentially the same thing then you should be able to just remove the offending channel then copy the good one over . You can offset it ever so slightly to get a more spacial sound as well. You can use limiters and compressors but I believe you will always still have some audible artifacts...

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[timmyp]

Thanks for the replies thus far...

Both channels show these spikes, so I'm thinking the copy idea is not going to be the way to go. I'll play with the compressor settings and see if I can get anywhere with that.

Thanks again.