DeEsser in Sonar

Hey guys,
Do we have a good DeEsser in Sonar? The Waves one is on sale today only and before I buy it I just wanted to make sure that I'm not throwing my money away. Thanks.

P.S. I know we have the Nomad one in Sonar and I tried it, but it didn't solve my problem. It could be that I don't know how to use it properly. I just don't know if it's any better than the Waves.

Duh!!!! Forgot that one. Would still like to know from someone who has the Waves if it's any better than what we have. Thanks for reminding me.

Thanks Zargg!

I would say I like the Waves one better than UAD's.
Before I got the 3rd party ones, I used VX-64 de-esser almost exclusively.

Base 57
    This takes some time but I prefer to edit the clip. You can use a clip envelope but I have a keybinding to Gain and highlight the offending sss and destructively reduce the volume of the sibilance. With a little practice you can get through a track pretty quickly.

That's how I've dealt with them in the past. I think I'm going back to that method. Thanks for mentioning it. I've just been trying to do things the "proper" way lately. Trying to learn how to use new tools. In this case, I don't think there's a DeEsser that can fix this. Lol.

I'm with Base 57. But for the amp sim fans in the crowd, a de-esser before an amp sim can work miracles.

I have Waves Deesser, but don't use it. I prefer HoRNet's Sybilla Pro (€21.99). Well worth the money. No copy protection.
 
Details: http://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-sybilla-pro/
 

 
From the web page:
 
Sybilla Pro is a multi filter de-esser, unlike other traditional de-essers Sybilla Pro has 8 different tunable filters to effectively find the offending sibilance and feed the compressor that will reduce it.
 
Sybilla Pro is a wideband de-esser, the compressor stage is driven by the sum of the output of the active filters above the threshold so that if the sibilance moves in frequency Sybilla Pro can follow it and never miss it.
 
Another peculiarity of this plug-in is that the threshold is not fixed, but relative to the signal, the compressor is driven by the sum of the filters which is computed against the unfiltered signal, this difference is then used as key for the compressor. What happens with this kind of processing is that de-essing takes places even in softer passages where with traditional fixed threshold de-essers the signal must be above the set threshold for de-essing to take place.
 
The heart of the plugin is the filters bank, here you can set the frequency and level of each filter individually, the bandwidth will always be 1KHz for each filter. For fine tuning you can listen to the output of the filter bank or each filter individually using the key listen buttons.

Each filter can be turned on and off, when turned off the filter is disabled and won’t be considered as compressor sidechain.
 
Sybilla Pro offers two compression flavors, VCA and OPTO, the first is snappier and has a hard knee, while the second is slower with a soft knee, for each of the modes attack and release can be set.

The HoRNet's Sybilla Pro sounds nice - I've been using my own multi-step process to try do accomplish that, but a single unit would be nice!  I have used more than one de-esser (typically VX64 and BT) set to different frequencies - at least for me this seems to have worked.  Using the switch to hear the only the filtered sibilance helps hone in on the frequency, but it seems to me that sometimes it takes more than one filtered frequency to reduce the sibilance.  Sometimes I use one de-esser on the track and one on the buss that collects the offending track(s), again at different frequencies.  On occasion I throw an EQ on with a sharp notch filter at the worst frequency, and turn it on/off just around the "S".  
 
But as has been said, I'm no pro either.  Don't even play one on TV.

I think When I got Spat 2015 it came with AD2, at the bottom of my XLN account page I got Nectar elements for free. That has an easy to use DeEsser.
 
 
re deit, it came with AD1 and X3 producer..  so you should have Emaments under "my products"

LJB
The LP Multiband is great for De-Essing too.

I'll add that the Sonitus multiband will work too. Bypass the lower bands and keep the highest one active
and set its frequency to about 3K to start. Set ratio for about 3 dB of reduction to start. Set threshold so that the "s" sounds are compressing.

mikedocy

LJB
The LP Multiband is great for De-Essing too.

I'll add that the Sonitus multiband will work too. Bypass the lower bands and keep the highest one active
and set its frequency to about 3K to start. Set ratio for about 3 dB of reduction to start. Set threshold so that the "s" sounds are compressing.

 
+1 on both. The Sonitus multiband is what I use for "de-essing" on guitar most of the time.

I think de-essing should be outlawed on the grounds of Phonetic Discrimination.
I may even start my own Phonetically Correct brigade!
 
De-breath plug ins on the other hand....

Another vote for waves de-Esser. I got mine at audiodeluxe on sale for $25.00. No brainer...