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Feedback Wanted: Calling all people with good hearing and some knowledge in audio editing/restoration

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I am about to start restoring the “Making of Gabriel Knight” movie that came as a hidden extra with the CD-Rom versionwith an old game I own. The audio on it is, as expected, awful: 11025Hz, mono, and 8bit. I intend to make it a 48000Hz stereo 16bit file, with some enhancement in between the processing. This is where I need your feedback. What I first need you to do is tell me which difference (if any) you find between these two files:

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ITw3NaJ262924/1.flac.html
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/lOC0zZq262901/2.flac.html

After that, I’d like to hear your suggestions on how to improve their quality. Any and all feedback is welcome and extremely appreciated.

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Theres digital clipping on both but theres slightly more on the 2nd track, theres a gentle 60hz hum on both tracks. I think you may have tried to boost the top end slightly with either EQ or enhancement but can't really tell much.

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1.Flac is I assume the untouched version?, you find that its levels take a nose dive around 6khz which doesn't give you much room for sparkle,
I'd suggest instead of EQ use a very little enchancement to fake a top end with harmonics,
Notch out the 60Hz hum, this will give a clearer overall sound.
Find out if that clipping is on the source material, if it is regain to at least -6db it wont sound so nasty on peoples high quality speakers as much..
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Its a tough one really, theres not quite enough there to pull a great fix but saying that - it doesn't sound too bad now through a TV speaker considering the source, personally I wouldnt go mad on the processing.

Maybe this should be moved to the technical forum, you might get more interest there?