Is it possible to fix metalized sound of a dvd audio stream?

[Talayero]

It's the ac3 audio of a dvd movie I bought. The film is old, from the forties, but that doesn't justifies doing a bad job with the sound.

It reminds me of some wrong results I had sometimes when trying to get rid of videotapes hiss with Cool Edit pro. If I take out too much I obtained that metal echo, as if the actors where speaking through a tin. Then I could correct it going back to the original sound and taking out less hiss, but in this case is the original sound (the ac3 from my movie) that already has that disgusting effect now and then.

Is there some way of getting rid of it? May be with Adobe Audition and some VST plugin? Or I'd better forget it?

Thanks in advance.

[soundz]

Originally posted by Talayero
It's the ac3 audio of a dvd movie I bought. The film is old, from the forties, but that doesn't justifies doing a bad job with the sound.

It reminds me of some wrong results I had sometimes when trying to get rid of videotapes hiss with Cool Edit pro. If I take out too much I obtained that metal echo, as if the actors where speaking through a tin. Then I could correct it going back to the original sound and taking out less hiss, but in this case is the original sound (the ac3 from my movie) that already has that disgusting effect now and then.

Is there some way of getting rid of it? May be with Adobe Audition and some VST plugin? Or I'd better forget it?

Thanks in advance.

You can try adding some reverb; usually when over-processing with noise reduction the natural ambience disappears, so if you do it carefully and scene by scene matching the reverb parameters with the visual environment you may get a decent result; the tin-ness of the dialogue gets somewhat reduced.

It's a lot of work...

Best,

soundz

[JoaCHIP]

What happened here is probably that you have resampled the audio sample rate. This is a bad thing to do, unless you use a high quality resampler like the one in SoundForge or Samplitude. Rule of thumb is: Don't resample the audio unless someone is telling you to at gun point.