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Help repairing these old microphones

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Hi all, first post here, though I've lurked for quite a while now. I recently saved a handful of mics from the recycling bin, and need a wee bit of assistance with some of them.

Before I begin, I should mention that I am a semi-professional electronics repair tech and I do a lot of work on amps, synths, and recording gear, but not a lot of microphones.

repairing clipped vocals

hello.

i got some vocal tracks which are a bit distorted on the louder parts. mostly only slight distortion, sometimes a bit more.
it's no digital clipping. the engineer told me it's because the singer was too close to the mic, so it seems the preamp clipped.

is there a way to "repair" the tracks, cause redoing them is no option.