Is there anyone who can fix my sucky sound? Help me please!

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stringz

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Oh dear i had a very bad sound day!

I recorded an interview and the levels are pretty bad. Two radios, one quiet, one loud and a fair amount of sibilance on one of the tracks. The interview is 15 mins long. If there's anyone who can help balance it out i'd be willing to make it worth their while (or almost worth their while).

Thanks for even looking at this plea from a miserable man.
 
Without hearing a sample of what you're working with, there's really no way to say what can or cannot be done.
 
Yeowsa. If you want folks to help you kind of need to give them a chance.

So I downloaded the file, plays silent over the web BTW, and had a look.

For some unknown reason the file comes down with an AVI extension? though it's a WAV file so that is the first issue the second and the reason that it's silent over the web is that it's a four channel file and channel 1&2 are silent.

OK to your question. Is it fixable? I think yes. The first 3/4 or so the guy is VERRY quiet but seems on mic just with low gain. But it seems quiet enough that you can boost it with out it sucking. The last 1/4 is at a decent level. There is a certain amount of cross pick up and that might be a bit of an issue but probably not, these folks seem to be pretty good at not stepping on each others lines.

She is a bit crunchy but that should be improvable, she isn't trashed.

If you want me to work on it drop me an email.
 
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It's a 4-trk BWF (.WAV) poly file.. Opens in Sound Forge PTs, and Vegas Pro fine. Yeah, it's fixable.
As Noiz2 stated there's some cross pick up, which is typical, and easily addressed too.
 
This should be very useable/fixable. What you need to put it into is some sort of DAW or NLE program that has the ability to draw in volume envelopes.
Then you can raise the level of the interviewee, while perhaps lowering the volume of the interviewer (female host). After volume editing, maybe a little EQ to deal with the "hollow" sound/room echo on the interview subject near the beginning (when he is speaking much more quietly). Mix it all down to a new file, and voila! Done deal.

BTW, I don't know if you re-posted or anything, but the file opened up right away in Windows Media Player.

GJ

PS-- The sibilance and "crunchiness" on a few of the very mildly distorted passages may be mitigated a bit with a little EQ "massage." But unless you get into some very advanced tools, it's unlikely that you'll be able to remove it all (sibilance, crunch, and room sound) without causing other effects/artifacts to creep in that you don't want. Don't worry, it really didn't sound bad to me at all, other than the volume discrepancy. I've heard/dealt with much worse. It's quite ok.
 
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