Fix screen recording audio

Fix Screen Recording Audio

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Upload a recording with audio problems and this tool analyzes it in your browser first — peak level, loudness, clipping, and whether one channel is silent — then recommends a fix. Pick normalize, mono, boost, declip, or denoise, and the fix runs on our server so it can handle any file size. Video is stream-copied untouched wherever the container allows it; only the audio is touched.

  • In-browser audio analysis first
  • Plain-language diagnosis
  • 5 fix modes: normalize, mono, boost, declip, denoise
  • Video stays untouched (stream-copy)
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How it works

  1. 1

    Upload the recording

    MP4, MOV, WebM, or MKV, up to 500 MB. Files under 100 MB get analyzed in your browser first; larger files skip straight to manual mode selection.

  2. 2

    Read the diagnosis

    The analysis reports peak level, loudness, clipping, and whether one channel is silent while the other has signal, in plain language, and pre-selects the fix mode most likely to help.

  3. 3

    Pick a fix mode (or keep the recommendation)

    Normalize levels loudness to a consistent target. Mono folds a one-sided recording onto both channels. Boost raises a quiet track with a limiter. Declip repairs a distorted, ceiling-hitting track. Denoise reduces steady hum or hiss.

  4. 4

    Download the fixed MP4

    The server re-encodes only the audio (AAC, 160 kbps) and stream-copies the video whenever the source container allows it, so picture quality is unaffected.

How do I fix bad audio in a screen recording?

Upload it above. The browser analyzes the audio and tells you whether it's too quiet, clipping, missing on one channel, or just uneven, then recommends one of five fixes. If you'd rather test your mic before recording again instead of fixing it after the fact, run the microphone test or the full recording readiness test first.

Avoid the fix-it-later cycle

Recording with Clipy captures audio the same way every time, so gain, channel routing, and levels stay consistent recording to recording — fewer trips back to a fixer tool after the fact.

How the in-browser analysis works

The browser decodes the audio track with the Web Audio API's decodeAudioData, then measures peak amplitude, RMS (an approximation of perceived loudness), the fraction of samples hitting the ceiling (clipping), and whether one channel is silent while the other isn't. None of this is uploaded — it's a local decode-and-measure pass that only produces a diagnosis and a suggested mode. Files over 100 MB skip this step to avoid a slow in-browser decode; the actual fix always happens server-side regardless of file size.

Why five separate fix modes instead of one 'auto-fix' button

Quiet audio, clipped audio, one-sided audio, and background noise all need different ffmpeg filters, and applying the wrong one can make things worse — boosting an already-clipped track adds more distortion, and denoising a merely-quiet track won't fix the volume. The analysis recommends a mode, but you can override it: sometimes a recording needs two passes (declip, then normalize), and running one fix per pass gives you a chance to check the result before combining fixes.

Common questions

My recording's audio is only coming out of one speaker. How do I fix it?

This is almost always a mono microphone recorded onto a stereo track, with the other channel left silent. Pick the Mono mode: it folds both channels together (rather than just duplicating one), so any signal on the 'quiet' side isn't lost, and both output channels carry the same, complete audio.

What does declip actually fix?

Clipping happens when the input gain was too high and the waveform hits the maximum representable value, flattening the peaks and adding harsh distortion. Declip (ffmpeg's adeclip filter) detects and interpolates over those flattened sections. It can't fully undo severe clipping — the original waveform data above the ceiling is genuinely lost — but it noticeably reduces the harshness on moderate clipping.

Will this tool change my video quality?

No. When the source is MP4 or MOV, the video stream is stream-copied (`-c:v copy`) — bit-for-bit identical, no re-encoding. WebM and MKV sources are re-encoded to H.264 because their video codecs (VP8/VP9) can't be placed inside an MP4 container without conversion, but that re-encode uses a high-quality setting (CRF 20) intended to be visually lossless.

What's the difference between this and the Normalize Video Audio tool?

Normalize Video Audio always applies one fix (loudness normalization to -16 LUFS) with no diagnosis step. This tool analyzes the audio first, diagnoses what's actually wrong, and offers four additional fixes (mono, boost, declip, denoise) for problems normalization alone doesn't solve, like clipping or a silent channel.

Does denoise remove all background noise?

It reduces steady, broadband noise like fan hum, room tone, or a constant hiss (ffmpeg's afftdn filter, tuned at nr=12/nf=-40). It won't remove intermittent sounds like a dog barking, a door slam, or someone talking in the background — those need manual editing or a source-separation tool, not a noise-floor filter.

My file is over 100 MB. Can I still use this tool?

Yes. The 100 MB limit only applies to the optional in-browser analysis step (to avoid a slow decode of large files in the browser). The actual fix always runs on the server regardless of file size (up to the 500 MB upload limit), so just pick a mode manually — Normalize is a safe default if you're not sure.

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