Slightly OT, Audio editing and enhancement tools

HI,
I know this is a little off topic, but is needed for Audio in CP.
What are the best applications for editing and enhancing any audio in my CP files....is it software by Adobe or Izotope for eample.
I want to get rid of some background noise amp up the volume of the speaker/narrator & enhance the voice tones etc....
I know we have Adobe Audition, but I see that as aminly and editinmg tool rather than the removal of background noises etc, but what do others use for this purpose...?
Kind Regards
Ross

Adobe Audition is an excellent tool for removing background noises as well as doing all the other tasks you described.
I think you need to investigate Audition's abilities a little more, as it seems from your post you are still quite unfamiliar with the tool. There are quite a few good video tutorials about it on Adobe TV.

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