For this project, I sourced a spoken-word podcast episode from Freesound for use as a professional audio editing sample. The original audio, Karle and Kenners: Hitting the Bar. Episode 1 by KarleKenners contained common field/unclean audio issues, including rumble, muddiness, high-frequency noise, audible hums/“uhs”, and harshness. The goal was to transform this rough recording into a clean, polished short sample suitable for my freelance portfolio. I performed detailed noise reduction, removing low-end rumble and high-frequency hiss while preserving natural speech clarity. I corrected tonal