De-essing

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2011/06/02 18:12:29 (permalink)

De-essing

does anyone know of any de-esser sonar 7 producer edition offers besides the vintage 64? if not, what about a free download for one?
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    SvenArne
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    Re:De-essing 2011/06/02 20:23:57 (permalink)
    Digital FishPhones excellent free Fish Fillets suite includes the effective SpitFish de-esser, as often used by Mike Senior in his "Mix Rescue" articles in Sound On Sound Magazine. The rest of the plugs are cool as well!

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    Re:De-essing 2011/06/02 22:00:05 (permalink)
    Spitfish works quite well as long as the track is hot enough to fall within its detection range.

    You can also use the Sonitus multiband compressor in a pinch.

    But far and away the best method, especially if you're dealing with a particularly nasty sibilant track, is the old-fashioned way: clone the track, brutally EQ the clone so it's all in the 6-8KHz range and compress the hell out of it. Then use that mutilated copy to drive the sidechain input of a compressor on the vocal bus. You can use the Sonitus compressor for this.


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    Re:De-essing 2011/06/02 22:01:31 (permalink)
    thanks. but its not working its just downloading as a .dll file?
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    Re:De-essing 2011/06/02 22:03:34 (permalink)
    haha never mind. forgot its a vst plugin
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    Re:De-essing 2011/06/02 22:06:22 (permalink)
    @ bitflipper, on the clone track would it work better just to put a high pass filter cutting out everything under 6k?
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    Re:De-essing 2011/06/03 00:13:58 (permalink)
    You can do that. But there isn't much above 8k that's going to be a problem. Sibilance normally lives around 7Khz, give or take depending on the singer. What you want to do is emphasize the nastiest, screechiest, teeth-gritting-est parts. When it hurts your ears to listen to it, you're there.


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