Good job, Audition team.

Very often I log into Adobe forums to report some glaring problem, and then battle the apologist or two who swoops in to defend utterly defective design or functionality.  Sometimes, even Adobe representatives will defend such.

Today, however, I want to report some decidedly good results. For years, I've turned to Sound Forge for any kind of serious audio work, especially noise reduction. The Mac version is a bug-riddled disgrace, so this means launching a Windows VM under Fusion and doing my work in Sound Forge there.

I recently shot an interview with someone who had a noisy appliance running in her apartment that couldn't be turned off.  Sound Forge's NR proved to be surprisingly ineffective in another recent similar situation, so for the hell of it I fired up Audition to see what NR options it offered.  Sure enough, it has noiseprint capture and subtraction, so I gave it a shot.

Right out of the box, the results were far better than I was able to achieve with Sound Forge's much more "precise" set of controls.  I got excellent vocal quality with minimal artifacts and a much more professional-sounding production.

GOOD JOB.  Maybe the NR function was purchased from a third party, and maybe it wasn't.  Either way, I want to express my appreciation for a feature that works well and improves my professional rep.