You're talking about clipping or distortion. Either way, I think the problem may reside in your attempt to "normalize" the file. I don't know anyone who "noramalizes" audio. In my opinion there is nothing "normal" with "normalizing". You might be better off using a brick wall limiter just to attenuate peaks.

You don't want to utterly destroy any dynamics in the audio. That is where much of the nuance of film comes from.

Are you saying those noises (overloading, clipping distortion ) are there already before you do anything? if so then you've got alot of work to do!

I agree you don't want to be normalizing, putting a limiter over maybe but if that distortion is already there then you need to get out your WAV editor quick!

Yes, those noises (overloading, clipping distortion) are already there before i did anything.

I just want to make the audio "listenable", it doesn't have to be perfect. And those clippings are kinda hurting my ears... Is there anything that can be done about it quick and easy?

Thanks,

T.

With most DAWs you can "draw" out the problem though, if you have a lot of clipping, it can be a tedious process. This is literally like drawing with a pencil. It's not perfect but if you go into it with surgical caution in mind, it can be done.

Yep, it's hard to undo that kind of damage. If you have a lot of patience, you can zoom out the wave view, and attack the overs. If it's all spoken, you may not even lose too much, if you're careful.

You could try to reduce their levels by drawing them downward so they are not so objectionable, as mentioned earlier. Or, you may be able zoom out, highlight, and just use volume reduction. Depends on what your software can do.

You may even try to just cut them, if they aren't too long. To cut it completely, without making more of a mess, IS actually surgery. You'd have to zoom in enough that you can isolate each spike, and then highlight it, remembering to highlight it as exactly as you can at the front and back as close to the zero line as possible...IF that's possible. If you cut it away from that zero line, you'll probably just introduce another click.(Zero line is the horizontal line that should be running directly through the center of your wav. You may have to zoom out a bit to even see it, depending on how dense the material is).

If your software has a "click and pop remover", you could try that.

Depends on what you have. Once it's there...it's there. No fun fixin' it.

Kapt.Krunch

There is a restauration software by waves called Restauration bundle.
I think the plug in you need is called xcrackle.
But this software is expensive and there is never a garantie that you can solve your problems totaly. But it should help.