Repair Clipped and Distorted Audio
Audio recorded too loud "clips": the waveform peaks are flattened, adding harsh distortion that no EQ can fix. This tool reconstructs the missing peaks to restore a clean signal.
Pro Premium AI tool — included with any paid plan.
How it works
A generative restoration model (VoiceFixer) recognises clipped, distorted speech and resynthesises the flattened peaks and lost detail, rebuilding a natural-sounding waveform from the damaged one.
What it's good for
- Over-recorded interviews
- Phone and voice-memo distortion
- Hot-gain field audio
- Salvaging the only take
Details
- Engine
- VoiceFixer
- Formats
- MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, AAC
- Price
- Paid plans
Frequently asked questions
The clipped peaks are gone from the file, but the model infers what they likely were from the surrounding audio and rebuilds them, which sounds far better than the raw distortion. It's a reconstruction, not magic.
Yes — it resynthesises audio, so on heavily damaged input it may smooth fine detail. For lightly clipped speech the improvement is large and clean.
It focuses on the distortion; run the background-noise tool as well if the recording is both clipped and noisy.
VoiceFixer is trained on speech, so it restores clipped voices well; clipped music and instruments fall outside what it can reconstruct reliably.
Light to moderate clipping reconstructs cleanly. If long stretches are fully flat-topped there is little signal left to infer from, so the rebuild becomes more approximate.
The generative model runs on a GPU and is slower than the DSP filters, so de-clip runs on the premium tier with priority processing.
Yes. VoiceFixer resynthesizes at 48 kHz, so even a low-rate clipped input is rebuilt into a full-bandwidth file.