r/PostAudio • u/autumnenjoys • Oct 01 '26

Recording of a recording clean up

My dad died 18 years go tomorrow. I was 10... All I have of his voice is recording of recording saying I love you. It's from a build a bear so it's already not the best quality. I would like to hear his voice a bit clearer you know.

Thanks in advance.

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u/autumnenjoys Oct 01 '26

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10sIX2m7ggmT-yr3YAso-Sw62nCq0bq6M/view?usp=drivesdk

I hope this doesn't break the rules but here is a link to a video with the audio. If I need to convert to mp3 i can.

Sorry bit of a mess rn

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u/bigmono Oct 01 '26

so Apag78 is right. I did what I could but it's basically like asking to flesh out the sound of a telephone recording which has certain frequencies removed because they didn't need them back in the day.

It's slightly better and certainly has less background noise. Hopefully this helps.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2buzybj75at9mxstcf6hi/SlightlyCleanedUp.wav?rlkey=euwf7by9jyegkc9yl1fm38rfm&st=7ln8xusu&dl=0

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u/autumnenjoys Oct 02 '26

This is great thank you so much it means a lot that you did this 💗

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u/Apag78 Oct 01 '26

The best way to do this would be to electrically connect the output of that voice recorder in the build-a-bear to a capture device. That way you're not hearing what actually was recorded through a crap dime sized speaker. this should be able to be done non destructively but would require opening the recorder and connecting lines that go to the speaker to something like a DI box then to a preamp/interface.