For the purpose of editing all my sound effects and foley, I used Izotope RX advanced editor.
Through this I was able to fine trim all my audio, cleaning it up so that it was perfectly audible.
There have been so many situation when editing recorded audio, where I have been trying to clean it up in the past using all manners of effects, such as EQ, compression, gating etc. It’s always really hard to cut and edit out atmospherics that have bled through in the recording process or even clips and pops of the microphone itself.
Through the use of instant processing, I was able to simply highlight an area on the spectral diagram (the orange waveform) and instantly process the effect I had selected, be this replacing the audio, attenuating it, fading, gaining and de-click ing.
The whole process which would normally take me days to edit all my foley and SFX took me as little as 6 hours to have all my sound files for this project edited and ready for use.
Another handy element within RX was the De-Verb function, with a lot of my recordings they caught a lot of reverb on them especially the recording of the letter box, so this function within RX was like a god send. It wasn’t able to remove the reverb as a whole but took out the big ‘boomy’ elements of the reverb.
The De-Noise function I found incredibly tricky to use, through most instances where I tried to use it, I also ended up removing many of the fundamental frequencies of the audio I had recorded initially… so I tended not to use it too much and instead applied EQ to attenuate specific frequencies within certain recordings.
A lot of my use with RX was tightening up audio, such as my SFX and One shots, I cut out all the bleeding background sound between takes, hits or movements. This left my audio nice and clean, and it allows you to export your files as 24bit .wav files so they’re of high quality. This in total takes all the pain and stress out of editing audio and works as an all in one tool for mastering sound.