Repairing old corrupted files of yesteryear!?

[logancircle]

Anyone know about fixing old corrupted audio? I can still hear parts of the drum machine at the correct tempo, but clearly it's horrifically damaged. Is there any way to scan it in Audition to see what's wrong? Please help!
(attached are some images from Audition)

This was originally from a cassette 4-track and recorded onto either a Boss BR-8 in "24-bit" (which I think was really 20-bit) or a Sony Minidisk Walkman (15-bit?) and recorded into Cool Edit Pro back in, maybe, 2000.

[vvv]

If the recordings were done on the BR8, that system used a proprietary compression algorithm.

If you have the raw files (looks like it to me), you will need to either get a BR8 and transfer the audio through its converters, or - better yet - get their free WinXP/2000 prog onna computer that will run it (emulation might work).

See here:
https://www.boss.info/us/support/knowle ... 201944979/

BTW, you needn't have the raw files on the ZIP drive, they can be on the computer hard drive, as I recall.

[Drone]

Yeah, I'd like to see a file and poke at it.

[Nick Sevilla]

If the corruption only happens in certain places, and it is things like drums, which are similar / identical in sound,
then you just replace the damaged ones with good ones. It is called "audio editing" and has been
done millions of times since the 1980s.

Cheers

[doomansoltani]

Thanks for the information and visual description

[djboomstick]

it's been a while since this was posted , and even longer since i've used cool edit .
last time i used cool edit it was installed from floppy disk .

but , i think they had an edit feature called "bit swap" maybe it was an effect ?


it turns all the 1 to 0 and all the 0 to 1



or something like that.