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The sendspace link works for me. I'd really like some feedback on it. Being a professional audio editor, I certainly hope my work is up to par...

I'd also like to say that if anyone has any questions or problems concerning waveform audio editing in particular, feel free to ask me, I'm always willing to help. (And always looking for a challenge, too.)

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Heh. "Professional" as in I earn 100% of my income from audio editing. People tell me that my work is also professional quality, but I'm not sure if I think so. Perhaps that's just my insecurity showing.

There's something I should clarify. I very rarely work on music. Most of my work is done with vocal and spoken tracks, and a lot of my expertise centers on precise manipulation of the waveform to correct speech errors and whatnot. For example, I was working on a radio advertisement recently, and the person who was speaking screwed up and said "cylinder block" instead of "cinder block". I seamlessly edited it to say "cinder block". (You can listen to that here). I also fixed the timing of his speech and removed any unnecessary vocal tract noises. My of my work consists of stuff like this. Basically, I am more of a dialogue editor, rather than an effects editor.

Some of these skills can be used for editing music as well (mixing, splicing, correcting errors, etc) but I'm not involved in making music or in the process of creatively applying special effects.

To answer some of your questions, I don't normally perform noise reduction on the tracks that I work with because our equipment has a very low noise floor. When I absolutely need to reduce the noise level, I use Cool Edit's built-in noise reduction, which samples the noise and has many adjustable parameters.



In the case of your second question, unless you have access to the original multi-track layout, there is no way to selectively move things within the stereo image, although you can expand the width of the whole stereo image. Cool Edit and similar programs have dedicated tools for manipulating the stereo image of a file, including special effects like making a rotating stereo field or doppler effects.



As for questions three and four, I really don't know. I'm afraid they are beyond my range of experience.

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I have an audio question. I am having trouble with specific kinds of pops and clicks in the waveforms I edit. Most of them are short, only a few samples long, and usually centered in the 2000 to 8000 and 10000 to 15000hz range. The person whose voice I am recording has a very clicky vocal tract, so there are a ton of these errors. I am editing these files in Adobe Audition 3, and the included pop and click filter is completely useless for removing these errors, unless I do each of them individually. Is there any software out there that has more powerful pop removal that can be applied to an entire waveform, or large parts of it? It is very tedious to remove all of these manually.

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The only way to do what you are asking is to install some kind of third party software on the iPod, such as Rockbox. Then you can choose whether to browse by ID3 tag data or using a directory tree.

It will also allow you to simply drag folders directly onto the iPod and browse them normally.

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