What do you do with extraneous noises between phrases of a take?

Should I do a delete and leave hole? Should I use a noise gate, and set it at a particular spot (say half way) to catch all that?
Or is it something completely different?
 
As always, Thanks
CharlyG

What do you mean by trim out? A new term for my lexicon.
 
You Brits are starting to get me to talk like you (without the accent). I still actually pronounce the r and/or t in words, large and small. Although, the same Brit can over pronounce the Ts in matter, and the next time the tongue won't even reach the roof of the mouth! ma- er
 
I now call the little phrases we add here and there the "tasty bits"!

So it's delete, leave hole.... hope you don't mind my bit of teasing 

To add "clip automation," expand the track height and click on the down pointing triangle in the box labled Clips. The context menu gives you four options... Select Gain:-
 

 
And you get a red line across your clips.
 
Add a couple of nodes and you can do this:-
 

 

What I usually do is use "comping" to put together all the best parts of the best takes I recorded and then "Flatten" it so I have one long take to work with. I leave all the noise in for that.
 
Then I unlock the flattened comp (so I can edit it) and create splits where the noise occurs. I crop out or delete the noise areas getting the clip boundaries as close to the useable soud as I can and put in fades (I spend quite a bit of time making sure I get the fades and crops sounding as nice and natural as possible).
 
Once it all sounds good then I flatten it all again so I'm again working with one long clip.
 
It uses up a little more disk space to have those silent parts saved as audio but it makes managing/editing/moving the final takes.
 
If you are unfamiliar with some of the functions I mentioned look up...
 
Comping
 
Take Lanes
 
Clips
 
Flatten Comp
 
Lock/Unlock Clip (Position and Data)
 
Cheers.

Blue Cat bundle downloaded, installed, scanned, and opened.
 
The reason this came up is I caught John noodling quietly while waiting for his part of the intro! also coughing just before the next verse!
 
Cool beans!

charlyg
Ps - I have committed myself to a minimum of 2  X2 SWA vids a day, max of 5. 

Excellent. You'll be flying in no time. Once you plow through them all they make a great reference. If I know I need to do something wacky on a specific day I'll pop open the appropriate vid for the task to review it. Then I'm not bumblefarting around or scouring the reference guide as I work. It has made my life much easier.
 
Cheers and good jerb. ;-)

HA! goes twice for me!

How is chopping up a clip any more destructive than adding automated clip gain or a gate?
 
The multiple clips you end up with when you chop one up are all just links to the same original audio file (take) on disk.  If you want back what you "deleted" just grab the edge of the clip and drag it out.
 
Also, it doesn't save any disk space by deleting silence in this manner because the underlying audio file remains unchanged.  You'd have to separately bounce each clip to a new file and then delete the original audio file.

Karyn
How is chopping up a clip any more destructive than adding automated clip gain or a gate?
 
The multiple clips you end up with when you chop one up are all just links to the same original audio file (take) on disk.  If you want back what you "deleted" just grab the edge of the clip and drag it out.
 
Also, it doesn't save any disk space by deleting silence in this manner because the underlying audio file remains unchanged.  You'd have to separately bounce each clip to a new file and then delete the original audio file.

using the 'ALT' tab and dragging the cursor across multiple tracks at once to take out entire sections of 'blank' space is so much easier then automating all of those areas.
 
plus
 
depending on how much volume automation i'm going to do, 
sometimes putting in the envelope FIRST, then doing the deleting of unnecessary audio, creates new nodes for the volume automation on each section of audio that is left, which IF you plan on doing a lot of volume rides, makes it easier to set up.
then, you just grab the middle of that section of automation envelope, and either lift or drop, it's super quick and efficient.
 
for me.
 
after my 'deletions' are all done, i simply 'select all', and hit 'apply trimming'.
 
a lot of times, i can quickly go thru an entire mix, deleting (trimming) everywhere i need to, 
and then go zoom in and focus on trouble areas, whereas all i have to do then, is grab the edge of the audio, and pull it exactly where i need to for the edit.
 
 
then, i can put volume envelopes across the entire individual tracks, and do typical node points and rides.
 
it works either way.
 
i often use volume automation instead of compression, and i do a lot of edits.
to my ears, it sounds better.
 

I crop all my tracks. One by one. Edit out all noises and apply crossfades front and back. It is my understanding this is common practice in the industry. I have been reading books where renowned mixing engineers explain this.
It is non destructive because like Karyn stated you can grab the end of the clip and drag it to the right and or left and everything you cut out is still there.
Using crossfades correctly can help clean up/smooth out sibilance and plosives as well. Crossfades are recommended when cutting clips like this because to eliminates any clicks, pops or other noise that can happen during play back when it goes from silence to the clip and the clip back to silence. Crossfades are applied at the beginning and end of every clip no matter how big or small. Its what the pros do.
Andy's (Synkrotron) screenshot is a great example and demonstrates this very well.
 
Cheers.

Because there is now a rumor that Cakewalk might be adding a wave editor at some point then it would add the option I have used in the past.
I tool copy the track to Wave lab and then it's pretty easy to silence the silence.
Drag to highlight,  hit backspace.  This is super fast and I often have used it on tracks that had unwanted noise between the good parts.
Of course it's destructive, I don't care,, good riddance to bad rubbish I say. 
There's always a back up anyhow. 
It will be interesting to see how Cakewalks future wave editor compares in ease of use to Wave Lab. 
 

I also tool copy and destructively edit often (Adobe Audition 4). In my perspective, if it is truly noise I want it gone for good. This takes less than 30 seconds per wav file usually.

I also freely admit that surgical modification (aka automation) is way beyond my patience threshold.
 
Edit: I forgot I posted this last year which is an example of how I typically NR pass audio with Audition: https://youtu.be/aclxPcBEQEc  That particular file is interesting since it had noise that ramped up during the take (had a nice ground issue going), so the noise capture was actually done on the end tail when used in my project, but in this video I grabbed the middle so you can see the residual noise on that end tail. The free version of Audition 3 has this same capability.

Cactus Music
Because there is now a rumor that Cakewalk might be adding a wave editor at some point
 

Source?

I will use one of several methods.  Either work fine and I use them both.
 
There are times I will go through a track....especially the vocal track lead....I move it to the top of the track view and where I have noise from lip smacks or any other noise, I simply drag on the time line above the track after I have highlighted and selected that specific vocal track.  The section of the track that was dragged on turns a darker color. Now I use Audio>Process>gain>mute to totally mute the noise. By zooming in, you can get very precise with this "trimming" method.  If you goof up, you can UNDO and back up. Once you save and exit however, it does become a destructive, can't go back,  edit.
 
Note: You can also use this same method to increase the volume of a specific word or part of a word..... say for example the singer sang a word correctly but for some reason, backed off the mic a bit and the first or last part of a word is almost inaudible.  Simple zoom in and use the cursor to highlight just that one part of the word.... use the Process>gain>+3db ( or some other amount) to bump that part of the word up. You might have to play with it and bump it several times.... but you can easily rescue the word rather than having to punch to fix it.  I use this little trick quite a bit.
 
Another way I work is that I always use envelopes and add my nodes manually and surgically. I'm going to use envelopes and since they are there, I can use them in place of the first method. Some edits are instant and others are slight fades in or out... but quick.  See the picture below. By zooming, the nodes can easily be placed in a surgical manner, exactly where you want them.
 
BTW: if you are using either of these methods, you will not get POPS in the edits.  These are silent edits.