Hi,
I've been editing audio for years now, because of my being a recording and mixing engineer. As you know, mixing music requires that each instrument is working timing-wise with the rest of them.
For audio restoration work, I use the industry standard iZotope RX4, in conjunction with, again, industry standard EQ and Compression plugins.
My business, Din Editing, focuses on audio editing. The large amount of editing I had to do over the years honed my skills down to a very fine level.
I'm an avid podcast listener, consuming multiple podcasts daily...I even go to sleep listening to podcasts. I listen to some of the best sounding and best edited podcasts around, such as Home Studio Corner's "Ask Joe", The UBK Happy Funtime Hour, The Simply Recording Podcast. I used to listen to The Nerdist Podcast, Marc Maron's one and so on and so forth.
Being subjected to such a large amount of podcasts definitely shapes how I will work on them.
Best regards,
Tiki Horea, Din Editing