Laurence Payne wrote:


I've received a copy of a concert which was not-professionally
recorded. The person was in the audience and while recording, there
was someone next to him/her applauding very load and not at the same
time as everybody else. Because of these handclaps normalisation of
the files causes the right channel to sound a lot louder (handclaps
are on the left channel and the peaks are very high on that channel).

What I would like to do is removing/suppressing these handclaps in
the left channel and then do a normalise again.
How can I do this in a sound editing program? I've tried to do this
in Cooledit Pro, Soundforge and Goldwave but with none of them I've
managed to get a satisfying result (which of course doesn't mean that
I'm blaming these programs, they're great, but I'm a newbie in this
kind of sound-editing).


Is the guy clapping DURING the music? If not, why worry?

Yes, DURING the music, that's what it makes so annoying....it almost
seems like he did it on purpose to make sure the recording became a
disaster...or maybe he knew that it was a recording which a lot of
people were interested in and he wanted to become (in)famous...