While not yet at perfection, I eventually got my sound processing to a place I really liked yesterday. Beautiful silence where there previously was keyboard rattling and breath noises, beautiful lack of reverb where previously it was very clear. I think I can back off some more and get more natural sound, but this was a great start to something repeatable.
Pity I did not write down exactly what I did and which settings I used. Always a next time to improve things … But look, RX to the rescue again: the history panel tells me I simply ran dialogue de-reverb followed by dialogue isolate.
I also did some very quick searching and discovered that RX 10 seems to support batch processing and the like. This would be really perfect for me. I imagine feeding all my recorded audio through RX 10 as soon as I finish recording so that I have processed files just waiting for me as soon as I sit down to edit. Yes, look at that nice batch processing window. Who is a good window?
Nice vision, right? There are probably lots of strange twists to the path there, but I like having something to aim for. Plus, it could give my Mac mini some more real work to stretch its legs a bit more often.
A bonus I did not expect was that having nicely processed audio made editing more fun. I am not sure why, but it was definitely a thing. Perhaps it is simply the fact that much fewer edits are needed? I am quite aggressive about cutting little noises whenever possible, so I most likely did a lot fewer cuts than I otherwise would have. Or perhaps it was the pleasure of comparing the processed track to the unprocessed one I had sitting on a muted track just below it, making me notice just how great the difference was between them. Perhaps the fun of putting my machines to more work?
Anyway, episode 348 of Björeman // Melin // Åhs will probably be out by the time you read this, and I think it is a good one even without taking its sound profile into account.
(The new coffee was good too.)