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In his modern software, this would have been a nightmare to fix. But here, in this ancient, "exclusive" version of Sound Forge 6.0, the pencil tool was king. He highlighted the single spike, a duration shorter than a blink, and hit Delete. The waveform stitched itself back together seamlessly.