Mastering Concert recorded on tiny condensor in Archos mp3 player

[ambi]

Ok, so i went to the tragically hip concert last night with some of my friends, and one of them has one of those archos mp3 players. It has a built in condensor mic (obviously low quality), but he recorded the whole concert. And after listening to it with the volume turned WAY down, it doesn't sound all that bad, just a fair bit of clipping.

Any advice on how to clean this up? Hes sending it to me right now to mess with. Im thinking a brickwall limiter to stop it from completely clipping, and then taking the volume WAY down, then some heavy duty EQing. I dunno if comression would apply to this, im not an expert on the use of compression but it seems that maybe it wouldn't be usefull in this situation. he's in the process of sending it to me right now, but i have a feeling its gonna look like a solid block in soundforge.
BTW, i have soundforge, acid, logic audio, and tons of plugins at my disposal.

So anythign you could recomend, any combination of plugs, would be awesome
Thanks!

 

[ambi]

after some messin around, ive discovered that it is in fact one solid block. Limiting just makes the block smaller. Noise reduction does the same.. . im going to try some compression

 

[TexRoadkill]

Have fun but if it is already a solid block then it doesnt need any compression or limiting if there are no peaks to bring down. Any distortion is already in the file and there is nothing you can do about that.

 

[littledog]

Sounds like the wave-forms were clipped on the way in. Nothing much you can do about it.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any "unclip" algorythms. Looks like you're stuck buying the CD!

EDIT: Oops! Tex beat me by a minute!

 

[ambi]

yea, its a solid block so there isn't really much i can do. BUT, i used a combination of the waves c4, c1, and q10 paragraphic Eq, and i managed to make a wave form out of it, and bring the volume down significantly, but there is still significant clipping that i can't be rid of. Yea it just had a little crappy built in condensor mic that clipped terribly.

BTW, we weren't trying to "boot leg" it, i already own all of the tragically hip cds, and so does my friend who recorded it, we just like having rare stuff, and its kinda cool to listen to the concert we were at at home.