Audio editing

[bear]

Hi everyone...my 1st post, which, being an ex-serviceman is far better than the last post.
I'm fairly new to audio editing. I'm an actor now engaged in recording and editing audio books. Some of my spoken files are three hours in duration. As you will imagine,the editing tasks are huge.
I started on Audacity, moved to AVS4You and now to Wavelab 4. I have all 3 of these on my computer. Wavelab seems to be the most sophisticated. What I need is to be able to do a few things with confidence. My specific questions are what filters to use to clean up extraneous noise from tracks? What filter to use to take out a top end annoying whistle on some of my s sounds--didn't know it was there before I started recording books. At present I'm laboriously editing every bit of sound wave, zooming the wave to get rid of the whistle in the s,and it's driving me bonkers as it's so time consuming.
Is there some I can find out the frequency of the whistle sound and delete just that? I've experimented with things like the q function on Wavelab, but get some strange results. My last effort just left the whistle sounds on the track and nothing else. Thank heavens for undo (LOL).
Any help appreciated and I'll buy you a cyber beer.

[PCProject]

here is a cut n paste from MSN with an audio mastering engineer pal of mine

dave arc-i says:
have you got a minute? qucik audio techy question
Colin says:
fire away old chap
dave arc-i says:
using wavelab 4 how would you get rid of an annoying HF whslte?
dave arc-i says:
basically sibilence(sp?)
dave arc-i says:
on the Es's
Colin says:
use a de-esser like Waves RDeesser or Sony Oxford dynamics
dave arc-i says:
will they be in wavelab 4? he is stuck with that editor
Colin says:
not native to WL, no
dave arc-i says:
ok so just fnd a deesser that is native in there if that is all he has?
Colin says:
guess so but i think you'd be lucky to find one


hope that helps in some way

[bear]

Thanks for the reply, PC. The Spitfish de-esser can be inserted into VST tools on Wavelab. I've tried that and still can't get the results I want.

[PCProject]

Best I could do - I am a video editor

next best advice i can give you is to go look for an audio editing forum