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The fix, on your spans

Episodes 5 and 6 only, using the spans you drew and confirmed. No detector is involved anywhere in this, so what you are judging is the fix alone.

The settings, as agreed. The voice stem untouched. The real room everywhere outside the treated regions. Spans widened three seconds either side with 0.3 s crossfades. Inside them, one ten second stretch of quiet room from the same episode — the fix for the loop you heard, which came from a half-second tiled about eleven hundred times.

Your level idea is what made it work. Each replacement is now matched to the room measured in the three seconds either side of its own span, rather than one figure for the whole episode. Room tone drifts as the phone moves, and a single figure fitted episode 6 but made three of episode 5's spans louder. There is also a hard clamp: the fill can never exceed the room inside the span it replaces.

Measured across all eleven spans: every one is quieter, none louder. Episode 6 down 29 to 46 dB. Episode 5 down 5 to 34 dB. Both masters pass every delivery check, and the voice stem is bit-identical to the separator's output in both.

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Episode 6

T06 1 0:16.19 3.2 s · noise -31 dB
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T06 2 1:42.50 4.6 s · noise -29 dB
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T06 3 8:59.98 3.1 s · noise -46 dB
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2 · is the fix good?

Episode 5

T05 1 0:08.28 4.9 s · noise -34 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
T05 2 1:41.06 2.5 s · noise -21 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
T05 3 1:46.04 2.5 s · noise -8 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
T05 4 2:21.31 2.5 s · noise -29 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
T05 5 2:25.87 2.5 s · noise -5 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
T05 6 2:40.26 2.5 s · noise -27 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
T05 7 4:22.19 2.5 s · noise -6 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
T05 8 6:48.48 4.6 s · noise -23 dB
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2 · is the fix good?
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