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?