Definition of Audio restoration
Audio restoration is the process of removing imperfections (such as hiss, impulse noise, crackle, wow and flutter, background noise, mains hum, and lossy audio compression) from sound recordings. Audio restoration can be performed directly on the recording medium (for example, washing a gramophone record with a cleansing solution) or on a digital representation of the recording using a computer (such as an AIFF, WAV, or MP3 file). Record restoration
is a particular form of audio restoration that seeks to repair the sound of damaged gramophone records.
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What is Audio restoration?
Audio restoration is the process of removing imperfections (such as hiss, impulse noise, crackle, wow and flutter, background noise, mains hum, and lossy audio compression) from sound recordings.