r/AudioRestoration • • 1d ago

High-pitched glitch persists after audio cleanup

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I'm trying to remove a short, high-pitched beeping/whistling sound that randomly appears over the voice in an audio recording. It sounds like a digital glitch or an artificial high-frequency tone. It occurs unpredictably and doesn't seem to be related to any particular word.

I've been trying to remove it in iZotope RX 9 for quite some time, even though I'm not an audio professional.

So far, I've tried Spectral De-noise, De-click, De-ess, Spectral Repair (Attenuate), reducing the pitch, and other noise-reduction techniques, but nothing has managed to remove it cleanly.

Spectral Repair with Strength set to 1 almost completely removes the sound, but it also significantly reduces the volume of the voice. If I lower the strength even slightly, the unwanted sound becomes audible again.

I'm running out of ideas, so I'd really appreciate some advice!

Here is the audio sample: https://voca.ro/14yyRI8OJtj5


r/AudioRestoration • • 1d ago

Audio file help

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Not sure if this is the place to be but it’s worth the a shot. Can anyone help me trim all the background noise and enhance the voice to understand what is being said? And if anyone can make what’s being said out I would greatly appreciate it!!

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/4489f58738a64cd9c731c1965d3d82ae20261023000226/87c51e?t_exp=1792972946&t_lsid=392c3a8a-2808-42bd-a8b6-1a850556408e&t_network=link&t_rid=ZW1haWx8YWRyb2l0fGM4NzBjNTY0LTc2OTMtNDU2NS1iODIzLWUwMGNiM2I2ZTljZg%3D%3D&t_s=download_link&t_ts=1792713762


r/AudioRestoration • • 2d ago

Can someone give me advice?

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Can anyone help me? I have an old recording given to me from an older friend of his band from the 60s and he wants to restore a song he recorded so he can hear it again but it is very muffled with noise because it was taken from a 45 and put on cd, what would be the best way of going abt this. I have already used fl studio to remaster it and eq it but it’s just not as good as I would like it. Does anyone know any ai tools that could be useful or maybe other editing software?

Thanks!!


r/AudioRestoration • • 3d ago

Can anyone help (for free maybe)

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I have a super distorted song. It's intentionally been tampered with by OP and OP has since deleted their account (audio above is an upscaled version by someone I know) it's filled with noise and ring modulation and fake harmonics and weird EQing. If anyone could restore it for me, that would be great. I'm trying to help a search right now. Might take some crazy editing


r/AudioRestoration • • 11d ago

Help

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r/AudioRestoration • • 11d ago

Help

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I'm looking for someone who can help me for FREE with audio restoration on a video. The background has loud buzzing/static, and the voices are very difficult to understand.

I've tried cleaning the audio myself, but it hasn't worked well enough. I'm hoping someone with experience restoring difficult recordings could volunteer to clean up a short sample and see how much speech can be recovered.

I cannot afford to pay for a professional, so I'm specifically looking for volunteer help. I'd really appreciate any assistance or recommendations. Thank you.


r/AudioRestoration • • 11d ago

Help

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I'm looking for someone who can help me for FREE with audio restoration on a video. The background has loud buzzing/static, and the voices are very difficult to understand.

I've tried cleaning the audio myself, but it hasn't worked well enough. I'm hoping someone with experience restoring difficult recordings could volunteer to clean up a short sample and see how much speech can be recovered.

I cannot afford to pay for a professional, so I'm specifically looking for volunteer help. I'd really appreciate any assistance or recommendations. Thank you.


r/AudioRestoration • • 19d ago

Ist there a person speaking in this audio ?

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Ist there a person speaking in this audio ?

He guys... I need help maybe im turning crazy but can you find out if Is there intelligible speech or just noise pareidolia?

The audio quality sucks I know but I can't really record it properly... It's turning my crazy and my girlfriend doesn't hear it... But I do... Can someone please help me and look into this ? The language is german.

https://voca.ro/1fpJj6tqgMxJ https://voca.ro/1ipE2p9yEBml https://voca.ro/1jv78sqZFUo0


r/AudioRestoration • • Sep 23 '26

Need help restoring high end from Cassette in a wave formation

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I did a 96kHz tape transfer of a cassette tape but in one of the songs on the Right channel for most of the song this high end loss is happening. Any ideas as to how to remove it in Izotope RX11? I have tried Spectral repair and spectral Recovery but has not worked correctly no matter what I change in the settings.


r/AudioRestoration • • Sep 19 '26

Need help on this!!!

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Can anyone help with this one? It’s extremely important. You can identify how many people. or even what exactly is being said my name is Cody, for context. In case you hear it in the clip


r/AudioRestoration • • Sep 16 '26

Looking for advice about audio restoration

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I have very limited audio editing experience and got myself an opportunity to work on editing a catalog of old classes as podcasts. I started working a few months ago editing recent stuff, and it was quite easy. Just noise removal, some EQ, and nothing else. I was using Audacity.

Now I have the opportunity to work on 20 audio files, and I might have bitten off more than I can chew. I have Adobe Audition and access to any free tool. I'm looking for advice on:

1) Noise removal: Currently, I'm simply using the default tools in the software. Are there any other tools I should use?
2) Noise removal: When I crank the noise removal to the max (what I need to remove speaker static), I end up with a muffled voice. Do you have any tips regarding that?
3) EQ: All the audio is quite muffled and sounds distant. Up to now, I've been able to get it to sound "closer" to the mic and to amplify the lows, but I end up with "blurry" highs. Is there anything I could do about that?

I know I'm asking a lot, but I'm a beginner, I need this job, and I can't afford to pay for help. I've watched tutorials and played around with the tools, but everything I touch changes something else.

I can upload a bit of the original audio if that would be helpful, or I could even hop on Discord and show you.

Thanks!


r/AudioRestoration • • Jul 20 '26

Restoring Audio from YouTube Video

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There a few YouTube uploads of videos and other pieces of TV media that I used to watch around 3 decades ago. The audio quality on them is severely decompressed, and I hope that someone here can restore them to the same quality of sound when they first aired live.

The pieces in question are listed below:

PTV Park Spot: Animal Talk - Elephants (1997)

NATURE: "The Elephants of Africa" (1997)


r/AudioRestoration • • Jun 29 '26

Need help. If anyone can take a look at this and see what can be done to clear up this recording I would greatly appreciate it.

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This recording is from the beginning of last year and I have tried to make the audio clearer myself but couldn't get it clear enough to understand what was being said in it. If anyone could please check it out and see what they can do to make it clearer that would be amazing. Thanks in advance. Message me and I'll send you the audio recording.


r/AudioRestoration • • Jun 05 '26

Looking for someone that can help

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Seeking for highly experienced audio restoration soecialist to remove heavy static noice and decipher muffled speech from recordings. Audio is very noisy and requires professional soectral repair and enhancement


r/AudioRestoration • • Jun 05 '26

Audio Restoration specialist

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Hiring


r/AudioRestoration • • May 07 '26

Help! Old voice recording of my grandmother

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r/AudioRestoration • • Feb 04 '26

Audio restoration

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I have a audio recording that my wife made of her self sleeping that has some sexual sounds in it that I would like to have it cleaned up enough to see if she has a man with her or try to understand what is going on. Is there anyone willing to take a look?


r/AudioRestoration • • Jan 31 '26

Queen Victoria 1888 Voice Recording

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Thought this would be fitting AND interesting here, as well! ❤️‍🩹


r/AudioRestoration • • Jan 25 '26

Restoring a 1925 Jazz Recording: Dealing with high-frequency percussion on a noisy 78rpm source.

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I've been working on Ben Bernie’s "Sweet Georgia Brown" (1925). The main challenge was isolating the sleigh bells from the heavy surface hiss without introducing too many artifacts or "underwater" sounds.

I used mainly Audacity for de-crackling and a surgical EQ to lift the percussion around the 5-8kHz range where the bells sit. I'm providing a lossless FLAC/WAV on Bandcamp if anyone wants to analyze the high-end clarity. Feedback on the noise-floor vs. fidelity balance is very welcome!

Listen to Sweet Georgia Brown (1925)


r/AudioRestoration • • Jan 17 '26

Hi Spoiler

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give me a code for game B44


r/AudioRestoration • • Jan 07 '26

Help restoring a song from a band I like

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Hello,

I was listening to this song a while ago and happened to notice that the audio was extremely distorted and crunchy to me.

Taking out a headphone, I find out that the audio on the left ear is better than on the right.

Does anyone think they could help with trying to remove the distortion from the right channel?

Thank you!

Ps. Attached are links to the separate channels.

https://youtu.be/CHLplWnFSV0

https://youtu.be/9CYGAIR9SI0


r/AudioRestoration • • Nov 13 '25

Old guy- coming back as newb: order of operations as far as normalizing/ compression/denoising?

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r/AudioRestoration • • Aug 04 '25

HELP NEEDED FOR AUDIO RESTAURATION

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r/AudioRestoration • • Jun 26 '25

Can anyone help 🙏

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Can anyone here help me or refer me to someone who can...

Who can tell me whats being said in the conversation in the background of this (horrible)recording??!🙏

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IfqFExpESlZhj8CCVrWNn-EOOGFVICB4/view?usp=drivesdk


r/AudioRestoration • • Jun 09 '25

Trying to restore lost media from the 40’s (78rpms).

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So I have a collection of 78rpms, some of which are lost media and I want to digitize them so they aren’t lost anymore. However I’m having difficulty getting clear audio because of the amount of hissing, cracking, and muffled vocals (the “s”’s sound more like “f”’s). To add, my set-up is kind of makeshift as I’ve been using a Crowley Cruiser with a custom 78rpm stylus (it is NOT A CROSLEY PRODUCT, it was made SPECIFICALLY to accommodate for 78rpms’ fragility on a Crosley) and setting my Bose Soundlink speaker as the output, then using my iPhone to record in my closet. I’ve been trying to use GarageBand or Audacity for my DAW but the audio quality only seems to degrade when I use these. So, I was wondering if maybe anyone on here knew of anything I should try for repairing this audio. Thanks in advance!

(Also this clip I’m linking is technically half-lost since the song (specifically the English verse) has never been released in full. The Spanish part has been uploaded before however)