# Media Medic > Audio restoration, dialogue cleanup and video enhancement. Media Medic reviews recordings before payment and explains what can be improved. Canonical site: https://www.mediamedic.studio Language: en-US ## Queryable API This file is a curated static overview. For targeted retrieval, use: - Plain text: https://www.mediamedic.studio/llms?query=your+question - JSON: https://www.mediamedic.studio/llms/json?query=your+question - Examples: https://www.mediamedic.studio/llms?query=free+audio+restoration+review, https://www.mediamedic.studio/llms?query=reduce+background+music, https://www.mediamedic.studio/llms?query=preserve+original+evidence - No query returns the complete curated overview in both formats. - Limits: 256 query characters, 5 results, 1 per source, 360 excerpt characters and 8192 response characters. - Every result includes its canonical source URL and corpus receipt. ## How the free review works Start with the review form and describe what is hard to hear or see. An engineer assesses what can be improved before you pay for cleanup. Normal turnaround is five days or less. Ask about availability for the paid 24-hour option and give your exact deadline. Sources: , , ## Before sharing a recording Keep the original. Leave confidential names and case details out of the review form. Include any access, sharing or deletion requirements so the team can discuss arrangements. Sources: , ## Pages - [Audio Restoration Services | Media Medic](https://www.mediamedic.studio/): Struggling to hear a recording? Start with a free audio restoration review. An audio engineer listens before invoicing. Ask about the paid 24-hour option. - [About Media Medic | Audio & Video Restoration](https://www.mediamedic.studio/about): Learn about Media Medic’s audio and video restoration. An audio engineer listens before invoicing. Start with a free file review. - [Forensic Audio Enhancement | Media Medic](https://www.mediamedic.studio/audio-forensic-service): Struggling to hear the words? Get a free forensic audio enhancement review. An audio engineer listens before invoicing. Ask about the paid 24-hour option. - [Contact Media Medic | Request a Free File Review](https://www.mediamedic.studio/contact): Request a free review of your audio or video recording. Media Medic reviews your file before invoicing. Include the important moment and any handling requirements. - [Dialogue Cleanup Service | Speech & Voice Review | Media Medic](https://www.mediamedic.studio/dialogue-cleanup-service): Get an audio engineer’s review of hard-to-follow dialogue. Free file review before paid cleanup. Ask about sensitive recordings and your deadline. - [Recording Guides | Media Medic](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides): Practical guides to understanding, comparing and restoring existing recordings. - [Accessible Audio and Video](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/accessible-recorded-audio): Prepare checked captions and transcripts, preserve uncertain words, understand SRT and WebVTT, and test the final recording in its destination player. - [Audio dropouts in a recording](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/audio-dropouts-glitches): Compare the same moment across playback paths, understand what a gap repair can estimate, and protect the original recording and its timing. - [Audio enhancement for court reporters](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/audio-enhancement-for-court-reporters): Review unclear witness audio with realistic expectations. Learn what enhancement may improve, what to preserve, and what to send for a Media Medic file review. - [Three audio services, explained](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/audio-enhancement-transcription-authentication): Compare audio enhancement, transcription and authentication: what each answers, where its limits lie, and how to choose help for your recording. - [Audio file formats and quality](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/audio-file-formats-quality): Choose a compatible audio working copy. Understand WAV, FLAC, lossy coding, sample rate and bit depth while keeping the original recording unchanged. - [Audio restoration cost](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/audio-restoration-cost): See what an audio restoration quote should include, why the recording needs a review, and how to compare scope, paid additions and turnaround. - [Audio and video in court](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/audio-video-evidence-court): Prepare audio and video for discussion with counsel: preserve source files, document enhancement, check timing and separate clarity from legal requirements. - [Audio and video out of sync?](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/audio-video-sync): Check whether a video has a constant offset, growing drift or a playback issue. Preserve the original, align a clear event and verify the separate export. - [Why Body Camera Audio Is Hard to Understand—and What Can Be Improved](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/body-camera-audio-hard-to-understand): Understand why body-camera speech can be faint, masked or distorted and how to compare a cleanup attempt with its source. - [Choose audio cleanup software](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/choose-audio-cleanup-software): Match audio cleanup software to the recording fault. Compare control, privacy, editions and exports, then test the same passage against the original. - [Check for deepfake audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/deepfake-audio-verification): Verify a suspicious request, preserve the received audio and understand the limits of listening, AI detectors and provenance checks before seeking an assessment. - [ENF analysis: uses and limits](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/electrical-network-frequency-analysis): Understand when ENF analysis may help examine a recording, which reference data it needs, and why missing traces or high correlations need careful interpretation. - [Enhance security camera footage](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/enhance-security-camera-footage): Learn what CCTV enhancement can improve, which software adjustments fit the problem, and how to preserve and compare footage before requesting a review. - [Enhance whispered audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/enhance-whispered-audio): Learn how to make recorded whispers easier to hear, test gain and noise reduction, evaluate AI cleanup and decide when an engineer review may help. - [How to fix distorted audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/fix-distorted-audio): Find out what causes distorted audio, test Audacity Clip Fix on a copy, compare the result fairly and decide when an engineer’s review can help. - [How to fix muffled audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/fix-muffled-audio): Learn what EQ can change in a muffled recording, how to test it on a copy, and when a file review can help you decide what to do next. - [How to fix phase cancellation](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/fix-phase-cancellation): Compare separate channels with a mono mix, distinguish polarity from timing, and learn the limits of fixing phase cancellation in an existing recording. - [Fix uneven audio levels in a recording](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/fix-uneven-audio-levels): Choose gain, normalization, compression or limiting for quiet and loud passages. Compare the result, avoid clipping and keep your original recording. - [Forensic voice comparison](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/forensic-voice-comparison): Understand questioned and reference recordings, recording mismatch, validation and likelihood ratios before interpreting forensic voice comparison evidence. - [Can You Make Speech Clearer in a Doorbell Camera Recording?](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/improve-doorbell-camera-audio): Preserve a doorbell clip, check playback and compare cautious audio-cleanup trials without treating missing words as recovered. - [Improve recorded meeting audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/meeting-webinar-audio): Compare meeting and webinar recording sources, test cleanup carefully, and check lesson or keynote audio, video timing and captions before sharing. - [Music restoration: preserve the performance](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/music-restoration): Assess music recording repairs, protect note attacks and stereo balance, compare original and processed audio, and understand the limits of reconstruction. - [Noise gate settings for voice](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/noise-gates-recorded-speech): Set threshold, attack, hold and release for a speech recording. Test quiet words and word endings, and learn why a gate does not remove noise during speech. - [Phone and Voicemail Recordings](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/phone-voicemail-recordings): Save the best available phone or voicemail recording, keep its context, compare a separate cleanup copy, and recognize what missing or altered speech cannot prove. - [Preserve audio & video evidence](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/preserve-audio-video-evidence): Keep original audio and video evidence, document its history, protect backup copies and prepare the right file and timestamps for review. - [Production audio cleanup](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/production-audio-cleanup): Prepare dialogue tracks for cleanup, preserve timing and source context, and check the return. Includes podcast handoffs and documentary sound boundaries. - [How to clean up interview audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/recorded-interview-audio): Choose the best interview source, test careful cleanup, and check quotes against the original without changing the speaker’s meaning. - [How to reduce audio hiss](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/reduce-audio-hiss): Reduce hiss in an existing recording, try an Audacity noise profile and compare speech clarity. Learn when another method or a file review may help. - [Reduce Breathing Noise](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/reduce-breath-noise): Lower distracting breaths in recorded speech with local volume edits. Learn when gates can help, what to check, and how to preserve words and timing. - [Reduce echo in a recording](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/reduce-echo-recording): Learn when recorded echo can improve, which tools address room reflections, how to compare a trial, and when to request a free file review. - [Reduce plosives](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/reduce-plosives): Reduce plosive pops in a voice recording with careful local gain, filtering or a de-plosive trial. Learn what to preserve and when to stop. - [Reduce sibilance](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/reduce-sibilance): Identify sharp consonants, test selective de-essing on a copy and check for lost speech detail before processing the whole recording. - [How to Reduce Background Music in a Video](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/remove-background-music-from-video): Check separate tracks, test speech-and-music separation and judge dialogue before replacing a video soundtrack. - [Remove static, clicks and pops from a recording](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/remove-static-clicks-pops): Match clicks, pops or continuous static to a careful repair test. Work on a copy, compare the speech and know when to stop or ask an engineer to listen. - [Can TV sound be removed from a voice recording?](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/remove-tv-sound-from-voice-recording): Learn what can reduce TV sound in a voice recording, why overlapping dialogue is harder, and how to compare cleanup while preserving wanted speech. - [Reduce wind noise in audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/remove-wind-noise): Learn which wind noise can be reduced, how to try a careful cleanup, and when an engineer's review can help with an important recorded conversation. - [Improve research interview audio](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/research-interview-recordings): Improve listening to research interviews while preserving the original, documenting processing, checking uncertain words, and respecting project access requirements. - [Archival audio preservation](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/restore-archival-audio): Plan archival audio restoration with clear preservation masters, documented access copies, metadata, file-integrity checks and realistic transfer limits. - [Restoring old family voice recordings](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/restore-old-family-voice-recordings): Learn what may improve in an old family voice recording, how to protect the original, and what to prepare for an engineer’s review. - [Should You Restore a Noisy Podcast Recording or Record It Again?](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/restore-podcast-audio-or-rerecord): Compare a podcast restoration trial with a pickup or rerecord while preserving guest meaning and checking the completed edit. - [Can a Noisy Wedding Speech Recording Be Saved?](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/save-noisy-wedding-speech-recording): Find better wedding audio sources, test cautious cleanup and preserve the original speech and meaningful reactions. - [Speaker diarization: who spoke when?](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/speaker-diarization): Understand speaker diarization, segmentation and clustering. Check labels, overlapping speech and corrections without treating anonymous turns as verified identity. - [Improve transcription accuracy](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/transcription-audio-quality): Check an automatic transcript against the recording. Compare cleanup copies, verify terms, mark uncertainty and keep source-language text separate from translation. - [Video evidence integrity](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/video-evidence-authenticity): Preserve original video exports, document file history and understand what hashes, timestamps and forensic authentication can establish. - [Convert Video Without Losing Quality?](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/video-file-formats-conversion): Understand video containers and codecs, choose remuxing or transcoding, and check a viewing copy while keeping the original recording. - [Why the Voice Is Still Unclear](https://www.mediamedic.studio/guides/voice-recording-still-unclear-after-noise-reduction): Noise is quieter but the voice is still unclear? Compare the original, spot processing artifacts, and learn when a file-specific audio review can help. - [Archived AI Survey: Jobs & Elections | Media Medic](https://www.mediamedic.studio/influence-of-ai): Read Media Medic’s archived AI survey graphics, their reported state values, and the missing methodology and inconsistencies that limit interpretation. - [Privacy Policy | Media Medic](https://www.mediamedic.studio/privacy-policy): How Media Medic handles enquiries submitted through this website. - [Audio authentication](https://www.mediamedic.studio/verifying-authenticity-audio-recordings): Understand what audio authentication can check, which file to preserve and what to agree before paid work. Start with a free Media Medic file review. - [Video Enhancement Services | Media Medic](https://www.mediamedic.studio/video-cleanup): Hard to see the detail in your footage? Request a free video review. Discuss possible improvement, the work and your deadline before proceeding.