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Crappy MP3 Audio ..Can it be fixed?

Discussion in 'Audio' started by bonitah, Mar 20, 2005.

  1. bonitah

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    I have an audio book mp3 file, and when I play it, it sounds like the narrator is in a tunnel or in something that vibrates...LOL..it's terrible..there is no way I can listen to that for 10 hours..:) Is there anyway to fix the sound so its not so weird? I played the file through my sound card, and using the eax feature it comes out not too bad..however I don't want to sit at my computer to listen to this book...is there any kind of program/software that can fix the sound and resave it so I can burn it to a disc and use?
     
  2. Jeanc1

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    You can always use a Sound Editor such as Audacity !! It has under EFFECTS ~~ a series of filters you can use to remove or attenuate that Tunnel Effect and other annoying things you may have.

    it's available here :-

    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

    ? and it is FREE ~~

    Smiles !
     
  3. bonitah

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    Great I am downloading it now...and will play with it to see if I can get these files sounding better..
    Any ideas of what effect would remove the tunnel effect..or whatever it might be...basically it simply sounds the craps! hehe...
    thanks so much :)

    bonitah
     
  4. Jeanc1

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    Your best friend when you use that program is the UNDO Arrow -- means you can try a filter... listen to it.. and if you not happy.. click that Undo Arrow ~~ smiles.

    Pretty hard for me to suggest a filter to use -- I have'nt heard your file ;; but if it's a low frequency -- too much of it--- you can use High Pass filters.

    Good Luck in your editing.
     
  5. bonitah

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    I tried the High Pass filter and it did not help I then after a lot of experimentation I tried a combination of the Hard Limiter, wahwah, and the normalizer. It didn't really do very much at all.. I sure is frustrating...lol...and of course after a time your ears starting making your head THINK that the file is sounding better...lol..

    Maybe its not possible to make some mp3s sound better? Like I said its really weird because just through the sound card and the eax setting of "living room" it sounds pretty good...

    Also I have an audio book who's volume is very low..when I play it I have to really crank up the volume.. is it possible to change the volume with out re-recording it? As in make the change with audacity and just resave it..?

    thanks..:)
     

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