EDITING

The next day when we came back into college, we all listened to the recording and were devasted to find that there was a lot of distortion whenever the choir were singing particularly loud. There was lots of crackle and clipping throughout and it was very hard to listen to. As we had been learning restoration using Izotope RX 9, we spoke to our lecturer to see if any of it could be salvageable. We bounced a small portion into RX but unfortunately it didn’t seem like there was much we could do. As this was just before our 2 week break for Easter, I said I would look at the session over the holidays and see if there were any parts with either no or minimal crackle. As the session was roughly 2 hours we all thought there was bound to be something in there that we could use. I managed to edit a few portions together of audio that we could use. I also suggested to the group that we bounce each individual stem into RX and try to restore the audio that way instead of all tracks playing together.

After the break, we all got together to listen to the edited version. Luckily there was material in there that we could use. There were acapella sections that had no distortion present, however it wasn’t the best performance from the choir as there was a lot of dissonance present. There was a slower song that they’d performed called Falling Slowly which was a very beautiful performance with lots of nice harmonies present. There was some of the distortion present but it was very minimal. We bounced each individual stem into RX, and using a mixture of De-Click and Spectral De-Noise we were able to clean up the audio to the best of our ability. We were very happy to have an audio capture that accurately reflected the performance given.