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Cleaning up muffled vocals?

I'm attempting to pick out some vocals for a Russian friend from a Russian film.

The vocals are actually in English but are quite muffled in places and I'm having a hard time hearing them, can anyone suggest anything I could do to try and clear them up a bit. I've managed to clean up some static on the soundtrack in Audacity.

For info, it's a film called Valentina from around 1980 and the track has only vocals and a guitar.

Cheers,
Paul.

Cleaning up muffled vocals?

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Quote from: probedb on
I'm attempting to pick out some vocals for a Russian friend from a Russian film.

The vocals are actually in English but are quite muffled in places and I'm having a hard time hearing them, can anyone suggest anything I could do to try and clear them up a bit. I've managed to clean up some static on the soundtrack in Audacity.

For info, it's a film called Valentina from around 1980 and the track has only vocals and a guitar.


Muffled = lacking high frequencies, particularly in the sibilance range ( 2.5 KHz and up).  The trick is to get them back. Adding a band of boosting over the missing range can help, but since you aren't working on just the vocal track, other sounds and noise can come back with the sibilance.
 

Cleaning up muffled vocals?

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Quote from: Arnold B. Krueger on
Muffled = lacking high frequencies, particularly in the sibilance range ( 2.5 KHz and up).  The trick is to get them back. Adding a band of boosting over the missing range can help, but since you aren't working on just the vocal track, other sounds and noise can come back with the sibilance.


Cheers, I'll have a play