Really? I was thinking that ANY noise that isn’t silence would get noticed, when the human QC happened, you see. Perhaps I’ve been very(too?) fastidious when it comes to extraneous noise. I use the multi view to see both waveform and spectrograph. I see them on the speccy.
But that seems to make it much easier than I have been thinking it is! I mean when ACXed, those bumps sound like, well, louder bumps, but not like a crack or pop that I would call distracting. It’s just I can hear them and I then think other people, customers and QC will, you see?
That explains that then. I notice too that you’re looking at the audio in the db view, not waveform, I’m not doing that; I think I might be missing out on information.
I’m using a Rode NT1 kit with AI-1 interface I’m in a treated area but I am keeping the record level low, when not speaking level rarely gets above -60 on PCM monitoring as i read -57/60 is a good quiet value somewhere when I was getting set up, getting peaks at -20, -18 and bumping up +2db to edit if it seems quiet. I edit breaths as I go, before ACXing.
My ideal workflow is minimal manipulation of files as possible. Ideally I just want to record, edit breaths and timing and ACX it and that’s that. Maybe a NR pass but the mic and interface are quiet enough most times. And then I don’t know if it’s best to NR the fles before or after ACX chaining.
I think I may be concentrating on the DETAIL of the file too much. It’s not uncommon for me to fixate.
Thank you.