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Noise-burst artifacts before transients for McMASA 64kbps

This was detected with one of the characterization items. For the mid-channel there are some noise bursts happening for some transients causing and ugly audible artifact. These happen for example at frames 96 and 119 as can be seen below:

Coded with 64 kbps

Screenshot_2025-10-01_at_11.53.35

Original:

Screenshot_2025-10-01_at_11.55.26

To reproduce:

./IVAS_cod -mc 7_1_4 64000 48 dm09a1s04.wav dm09a1s04.ivas.192
./IVAS_dec 7_1_4 48 dm09a1s04.ivas.192 dm09a1s04.ivas.dec.wav

Item can has been uploaded here: /EXTERNAL_IVAS_CHAR_MC/Issues/ivas-codec-issue-1408