I recorded a fairly quiet show a couple weeks ago (R-09HR (24/48) > CA-9100 > AT853). After I went through all of my normal workflow (SD > HD > Sony Soundforge (wave hammer, pencil tool, fades, resample, dither) > CD WAVE > TLH). After I distributed the show I had one of the guys who got the show ask me about some static in an area. I went through my FLAC 16 and FLAC 24 edited copies and there is static in the area he pointed out. I pull up my master and listen to that spot and there is no static. So I ask myself, what in the world could have caused the introduction of static?
I spent about 30 minutes really looking closely at the edited waveform in the static area. Nothing really raised a red flag to me. There were a couple areas where the waveform was cut level with some small fluctuations of maybe 0.5 db up and down in maybe 0.1 seconds. Totally different looking than anything around them. I took the pencil tool and tried to copy the adjacent waveforms and then relistened to the problem area. Still static. It is not in an area where I did any compressing or limiting, just normalize.
Anyone have any input on what might have caused this? I will more than likely go back to square 1 and start over with the master.
Thanks,
Greg