Wavelab - Any tips for producing Acoustic guitar?

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Hi there all of you -

I've got a dozen or so solo finger-picking guitar tracks I would like
to clean up and add some basic production to. The tracks were recorded
on two different wooden guitars and a dobro, in a variety of
surroundings with the mic - a cheap Sony stereo mic for a minidisc - in
different positions, sometimes placed inside the soundhole or attached
to the resonator grille, sometimes a foot away, sometimes three or four
foot away. Because of this, the tracks are not all of the same tonal
quality or volume.

I'll be using Wavelab 5.0 plus plug-ins to work on them. There are a
few pointers I could do with to help me out, since I'm a first-timer at
all this recording lark.

What simple Wavelab tools or step-by-step processes would you suggest
that will help with the following:

1. removing finger-pick noise - clicks and scratches?

2. removing static hum and high-pitch interference?

3. adding a fuller fatter sound to the recording overall, but
particularly to treble strings?

4. creating a wider 'surround' stereo sound for a single guitar,
particularly where the recording was made three or four feet away from
the mic?

5. making the overall sound more resonant and sustained?

6. Finally, is there a simple way to ensure that once they've gone onto
CD-R all of these tracks, despite the differences in their original
recordings, can come across at the same volume level?

Many thanks for your help with this - as I said, I'm a novice and a lot
of the terminology is lost on me - but I look forward to hearing from
you soon.
all the best
Chris

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Hi there and thanks for the response: it's much appreciated.

Just to let you know, this is all to be done by me on my laptop on a
zero-budget, and it's all my own stuff too so there's no issues about
time and cost.

I've got a fairly extensive plug-in package that covers the tools you
mention above - I don't have the name off-hand, but it's got about 70
or 80 plug-ins. I've got Cubase as well, but haven't used it much.