Oiginal audio recorded at to high a volume

How can I correct the muffled audio in this file? This is just a sample the original is 45 minutes.
I am new to audition https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58319987/DRTMaskTest.wav
here is the file you will have to copy and paste to your browser it would not let me post the real link
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Firstly, it's not clipped in the file at all. It's badly distorted, and the frequency range is completely screwed up. It sounds as though it's been recorded from a communications-type mic through a pretty bad preamp, but as I said, not only is it not clipped, but it doesn't even look as though it's been clipped at any stage.
You can't undo the distortion, but if you put a rising EQ boost from about 800Hz up to about 5-6kHz, you can improve the sound of it somewhat, and it's easier to understand.
Secondly, you can't determine clipping points or levels with headphones - period. By the time you detect clipping with headphones, you'll have the level way too high. This is what meters, and if you have them, signal/overload lights on preamps are for. On a modern sound device, you should be running all of it so that the peaks occur about 10dB below 0dBFS -this gives you adequate headroom for anything unexpected. Normally with a sound device you'd set this with the gain control on the preamp.

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