“ One sustained note in our current song sketch has a distracting fizzy texture. The rest of the phrase works for the melody, and my writing partner wants to keep its timing. Replacing the entire section feels excessive. We can try another generation of the same musical passage, but that might also replace the little pause that makes the line convincing. I started looking into ai music artifact removal as one possible route, without assuming it can rescue this particular note. For now we only need a useful songwriting sketch. We are not facing a delivery deadline. Would you first shorten the note, replace that phrase, or test a conservative cleanup on a copy? Keeping the character of the vocal matters most. A small imperfection may be acceptable here. Where would you draw the line and replace the phrase? ”