This year feels like the biggest step-up in terms of podfic quality for me. I'd been doing more-or-less the same thing with my editing for the last few years but this year I've branched out and tried new things. Some of those are definitely going to become standard for me. (these are all for Audacity fwiw)

Things I'll keep:

• double noise reduce before starting editing
• DECLICKER! I think this is more of a boon with a more sensitive mic where mouth sounds are picked up better rather than with a phone mic that will auto-filter some of that out. (Or maybe I just never noticed it in my older works)
• filter curve: this has been really nice to get rid of some of the background stuff and I've figured out the settings I like for comms and phone calls

Things that I'll use occasionally

• consenser: it's really useful for things with a lot of volume variation imo, but if the volume is fairly consistent I feel like the default settings just add distortion instead of being useful
• Noise Gate: another one that has its uses (mostly if I'm being fussy about breaths) but I discovered that I kind of like having the breaths in there and if it really bothers me I can just spectral edit it out.
• Spooky voice edits: good for ghosts & other things. Duplicate the selection, change pitch down -10,  change gain on duplicate track -11 (the -/+ bar in the audio track controls)

I still feel like I need to figure out how to make the envelope tool work and how most of the spectral editing tools work but this all feels like a big progression from where I was at the start of the year.

(also ooh look at me 2 dw posts in a day! they're related, but definitely needed to be separate posts)