Audio sessions?

[Questioner]

I'll see if he can give me a 3 minute clip of a session and see what I can do with it.

I also have an interest in audio editing, but I'm not currently set up for it. I wonder what approach you plan to take. Mine would be:

1. Use a noise gate with a long release time and slow attack to reduce background noise between talking, while leaving in all the speech content.
2. Use a noise reduction filter that can sample background noise, identify the dominant frequencies and reduce them, again without garbling the speech.
3. Use a compressor to even out the volume of the speech, then peak normalize for a consistent level.
4. Discover equalization settings that include clarity for each speaker's voice. Split the audio into a track for each voice so that the EQ per speaker can be applied throughout the session.
5. Add an overall low frequency cut to reduce rumble and wind noise, and an overall high frequency cut to reduce tape hiss. Gate the high cut so that it is only present between times of talking.

In the next few weeks I might be able to participate in the audio editing project.