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Take a look at the offending syllable. It probably has a big blob of pop, easy to see, that is only on the attack of the word. The offensive frequencies are all way down there, and usually you can fix a bad plosive by eq'ing it out, dropping everything below 120hz or whatever, either gently or with a sledgehammer, depending on what you need.

This is a great job for "take fx". You don't even need to highlight the pop too carefully because you can eq the whole word and then pull the item edge back so that only the pop gets the eq. It's sometimes easier and faster than carefully making an item out of the pop and then massaging the two parts together.

Make a new item to be eq'd and click on it to bring up media item properties, then click on the take fx button on the bottom. Choose ReaEQ and create an eq that ramps out the lows fairly sharply below 100hz so that what's above it isn't touched. Save this setting. Now the fx is on that item. You can leave it like that but I go ahead and glue it, which burns the eq into a new item. Then I drag the left edge of the un eq'd item to its right so that it goes right up to it, and let it crossfade. Done.

Now you can return to this next time you need it by bringing up the ReaEQ setting again. The best way to do this is to save the eq as a chain. Then you can call it up and eq a plosive with one keystroke.

But for now, make the pop its own item, eq it using take fx, and drag the edges to make it work.

BUT.... : )

You really do want to cut down on the amount of plosives that happen as the first order of business. Which AKG mic? Some mics are just crazy sensitive to plosives if you get close enough to get a good sound out of them, and others won't pop if you try : )

A pop filter is a given. But you just might have a mic that's a pop factory unless you get far enough back until your voice sounds too roomy and you want the closer, present sound and can't have it be a roomy sound. Try staying fairly close but not speaking directly into the mic, talk across it, so wind doesn't go directly into it but misses it. Point the mic at an angle to you and speak towards it but at a slight angle.