Imagine you have a sound file that was badly recorded, with no possibility to re-record, and with no clean version : how to deal with the clipping, the saturation, the distorsion ?
Imagine you have a mix/(pre)mastering that was crushed-to-death in a “loudness war” fashion and you have lost all the original files :

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how to fix this mess ?

Is there a possibility to clean / smooth the sound ?

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how to “unsaturate” ?

can i have declipping ?

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1. Fix clipped audio with De-clip. Keyboard Shortcuts. And that sounds a lot better to me than the original. IZotope RX 6 is a powerful, industry-leading tool for fixing audio issues. In this course, join Garrick Chow as he covers the best and latest features of iZotope RX 6, and demonstrates techniques for fixing audio problems in.
2. Yes, I was an idiot and tried to record a voiceover using a lapel mic that was too loud on a Canon 5D Mk 2, which has no headphone jack for monitoring audio. I don't have Adobe Audition - any tips on trying to make it even slightly less awful with the tools on Premiere Pro? (or any free sound-editing software downloadable online?).
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Back at you in our second installment of iZotope RX 3 vs. Adobe Audition CC. For those of you who didn’t read the original article, this isn’t a full review of the two programs, just a focus on the programs’ abilities to resolve audio issues that video producers often experience.In the first article, I compared declipping and crackle-and-pop removal, and found that iZotope was. Next-generation post production tools. RX Post Production Suite 4 includes the NEW Dialogue Match, RX 7 Advanced, Insight 2, Neutron 3 Advanced, Tonal Balance Control, RX Loudness Control, Stratus 3D, Symphony 3D, Groove3 video tutorials, and 250 sound effects from Pro Sound Effects.

it’s too late, we can’t go back to the clean sound!
But we can do our best to limit the damages.
here’s some informations : http://www.wavosaur.com/forum/can-distortion-be-removed-or-minimized-t1262.html

And now a selection of plugins to help fixing the clipping disasters :

I won the loudness war

Declipper plugins :

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Some editors provide plugins that can add some improvements, Izotope has developed a suite, intended for repairing audio : this include music restoration, “declipping”, noise removal etc. It’s a bit expensive but if you really need it, you have it all !

Izotope RX3

more info and download demo @ http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/

We have hunted down freeware declipper plugins on the interweb, we only found two, three if we include the “transient designer” (it can heal some overcompressed files) :

Relife 1.42

More info and free download @ http://www.terrywest.nl/utils.html

This free VST declipper can bring the oversqueezed samples to life, or smoothes a bad vocal recording. It was used on the clipped sample you can see on the first picture.
Don’t expect miracles, but don’t hesitate to test the three algo, to find which is working best for you.

Declipper DX plugin 2.5

Declipper plugin 2.5

Free download @ http://www.silksound.com/geniesys/

This is a directX plugin, you have to use a DX-VST wrapper (like vb ffx4) in order to make it work in Wavosaur.
This free declipping plugin try to resynthetize the peak lost by the overclipping, It has advanced controls, you can have a look at the help to understand how it works. It aslo has a compress feature.

Bittersweet 3

Informations & Freeware download @ http://www.fluxhome.com/products/freewares/bittersweet-v3

This one is not intented for “declipping” but is a transient designer, and it can help to get a smoother sound. It’s subtle, and more important : it has a big knob !

Don’t expect wonders, once a signal is clipped / saturated / overclipped / distorded, you can’t go back to a clean signal.