Heartland

i use wavelab to edit gigs from whatever source - and i am quite happy with results achieved. definitely i have my set of tools to restore and improve various kinds of recordings.
my question is about a comparison between available tools to do the same - i know that many of you guys eg. are using soundforge. so if you know both or even more tools better i would be glad to get some infos comparing these tools.
thx, j.