[Newbie alert: I have been in this discipline for less than 2 weeks!]
Thanks for your kind assistance, Gale:
My goal is to become an expert in NR.
(1) First, as an interactive user (with Audacity, Audition, Sound Cleaner II, iZotope RX4 or whatever tool I can find out there - I gather that professionals have a veritable Swiss army knife of applications -or rather: arsenal, at their disposal.)
That would be a steeping stone to …
(2) Programmatically, writing my own functions, plugins, etc. [this is the real cool part, only possible with Audacity]
I have found the visual erasing technique (invented by Adobe Audition, cloned by RX-4, see image) invaluable, for Stage (1) above, specially for the type of NR (really noisy) in which I am interested.
I assume that those “brush operations”, Photoshop-style, have some sort of equivalent Audacity functions? I am guessing that they are under the “Effect” menu?
Let’s say that I am past the Audacity “Noise Reduction” menu item in which I provided a Noise Profile. Assume further that I have been veeeery careful not to overdo it and the dreaded “wine glass” is absent but undesirable noises are still present.
What would be my next step, with Audacity?
TIA,
-Ramon