There is no known digital cough eliminator program out there unfortunately. In the noise free environment of digital recordings and CD available, not to speak of the many tick and pop free tranfers I've made from LPs, you'd think that while part the audience, these people would refrain from senseless coughing,celophane noise while unwrapping candies, snapping close pocketbooks, etc. At a concert we recently recorded, the conductor, before the downbeat,turned the audience and said, this piece begins and ends very quietly. If you think you have to cough do it now. They did, these damned fools. The rest of the audience broke out into laugher and then applause. This is proof that the vast majority of concertgoers don't cough senselessly and are also annoyed by it. During the music NO ONE coughed or made some noise which goes to show that this "practice" of coughing is truly a fake type undertaking 95% of the time at concerts, (at church?) I'm convinced that some concertgoers feel that they have to cough in order to be deemed true music lovers by the rest of the audience. Can you imagine the type?? I can. Don't get me going on between movement coughing....another foolish practice. This goes to show that stupidity and ignorance are boundless and limitless. The ultimate solution for senseless coughing is to have one or two guards on stage with rifles waiting willing to shoot anyone who dares to cough and preferably through the throat. At one concert recording an assistant said, "Sounds like throat cancer hospital." We both laughed like hell sardonically. As a recording engineer of live orchestra and chorus concerts mostly for 30+ years, I've come to just laugh at the dumb bastards out in the audience esp. if someone coughs up a "lunger". It the only way to deal with it. Just laugh. As for you out there who sits near a cougher, tell them simply and very softly: "Will YOU shut the f... up, for godsakes!" It works each and every time, believe me, and will eliminate future senseless coughing from that source. The worst (or the best?) of the coughs as recorded by us are being saved by us for a special CD of unforgetable concert coughs of all sorts.(I must get to Carnegie Hall soon to record the best of them!!!) Finally, in recording concerts in a series, it seems that the major, seemingly fake coughing always comes from the same seat. At the Rhode Island Phiharmonic concerts, for example, its always from row 4 seat 22 left as flushed out by very detailed stereo listening with speakers with extremely good imaging. (We can find out who and where you are! So be very careful next time!) Mics are usually at the same "aural focal point". Some future concert I will go out in the audience to that person in that seat and say the crude expression as printed above, so help me.... As for the rest who really must cough please take out your handkerchief and try to muffle you cough. You wont spread your filthy, cancerous throat-washed germs onto the rest of us too...you, "in your Brooks Brothers Suit"......you slob. Pierre Paquin www.sd-associates.com