[nathanm]

While looking for a WAV editor that had some kind of smoothing filter like Cool Edit used to have I came across this site.  I searched here to see if anyone else had posted about it but there was only one reference for something unrelated.  It claims to do what to me would seem impossible; restore clipped audio!  The thing is, the software is totally hardcore programmer territory and the user experience has been generally hostile for me.  As in, the damn thing doesn't run.  If you are on a Mac for instance: YOU MUST INSTALL X11 FROM THE SYSTEM CD!  The site doesn't exactly make this very clear.  I got it running on my work machine, but I've got no WAV files here to use.  Has anyone else ever used this?  It seems like it would be the cat's pajamas, but this X11 thing is weird.

http://www.cutestudio.net/data/products/audio/seedeclip/index.php

It seems too good to be true, but the idea of the end user fixing the mistakes that ought not to have existed to start with is simultaneously depressing and totally awesome.

[BradJudy]

Interesting.  I'll have to dig up a heavily clipped CD to rip into WAV and try.  I have some of my reference tracks in WAV on my drive, but they don't have much (if any) clipping.  It was an easy download and install for Windows.  It looks like the demos limit the output to the first 30 seconds of the track.

[mitch stl]

I use Adobe Audition software (which is based on the old Cool Edit program that Adobe bought some years back). It has a "clip restoration" feature that I've used on some heavily clipped material. It certainly doesn't "fix" a song, but it can make it "better."

In looking at the SeeDeClip web site, this particular function appears almost identical.

The X11 is an open source graphics program (most modern Linux versions come with it installed) but it shouldn't be a problem for Apple Macs. (Actually, I read the installation instructions and they seem to make the X11 requirement pretty clear.)