Is it possible to fix metalized sound of a dvd audio stream?

[Talayero]

It's the ac3 audio of a dvd movie I bought. The film is old, from the forties, but that doesn't justifies doing a bad job with the sound.

It reminds me of some wrong results I had sometimes when trying to get rid of videotapes hiss with Cool Edit pro. If I take out too much I obtained that metal echo, as if the actors where speaking through a tin. Then I could correct it going back to the original sound and taking out less hiss, but in this case is the original sound (the ac3 from my movie) that already has that disgusting effect now and then.

Is there some way of getting rid of it? May be with Adobe Audition and some VST plugin? Or I'd better forget it?

Thanks in advance.

[Soopafresh]

Believe it or not, it might sound more natural if you added some hiss to it. Just a thought.

[Talayero]

Thanks for answering.
How could I add that hiss? Some option in Cool Edit?
Is that something that you've done some time?

[Soopafresh]

Cool Edit allows You to do multitracking, right ?

Find a hiss source and add it to the audio.


Yes, I did it to an overly noise reduced audio recording and it made it sound less artificial. Your mileage may vary....

[redwudz]

I had the same problem with metalic sounding audio a while back. I'll have to try the 'hiss' idea. I have been trying Audacity to filter some short AVIs with some luck. I see it has a 'White noise' generator that might supply a 'hiss'.

Thanks for the suggestion, Soopafresh. I figure whatever I do couldn't make it any worse.