Audio Restoration (Location & Archive)
We rescue intelligibility in real-world recordings and restore legacy material without stripping its character.
Typical Symptoms
Location work and older transfers often share the same practical issues.
- Wind rumble, traffic, crowd, or cafe backgrounds.
- Handling noise or camera movement artifacts.
- Boxy or echoey indoor dialogue.
- Clicks, crackle, or constant hiss from old media.
- Hum, buzz, or uneven noise across a long transfer.
What Causes It?
Noise and acoustics change over time, and older sources bring their own technical limitations.
- Changing locations, rooms, and mic placement.
- Aging media or imperfect digitization.
- Overdriven or inconsistent recording levels.
What We Do
Section-Based Profiles
We split the material into consistent sections and optimize each one separately.
Noise & Rumble Control
Wind, traffic, hum, and room tone are reduced while keeping speech intelligible.
Click & Distortion Repair
Clicks, crackle, and clipped moments are repaired without harming transients.
Intelligibility-First Option
If the main goal is understanding speech rather than perfect fidelity, we push a voice-forward balance and suppress masking bands section by section.
Process
- Assess the material and define processing profiles by section.
- Restore and manually refine the critical moments.
- QC and unify the result based on the intended use.
Pricing & Processing Profiles
Location and archival audio rarely stay consistent, so profiles are key.
- We split the material into consistent sections (indoor/outdoor, noisy/quiet, echo/dry).
- Each section gets its own processing profile for best intelligibility.
- One profile costs 15,000 HUF, independent of duration.
- You can request a single profile, but it typically yields more compromises.
FAQ
How much noise will remain?
We aim for clean, usable dialogue; some ambience may remain to keep it natural.
Can you recover speech from heavy background noise?
Often yes to a workable level, but results depend on the signal-to-noise ratio.
Is noise reduction safe for music?
Yes when done carefully - we avoid artifacts and protect transients.
What format should I send?
WAV or AIFF is preferred, ideally the original transfer without additional processing.
Get in touch
Contact us and we'll help you reach a clean, usable result tailored to the recording.