What to cut (and what to leave)
Minimum Effective Editing in three moves: cut the mistakes you flagged in the room, top and tail the recording, clean up the levels. Leave the rest.
Remember the trick we covered for mistakes during recording — pause, click your fingers three times into the mic, then start the sentence again. Now you have a quick way to spot anything that needs chopping out: scan the waveform for the three sharp peaks.