X2: Oh boy. I can't seem to find a straight up Deesser or recall which plugs have one.

Could have sworn there was a simple Deesser plug which I must have imagined and I just poked around some of the Sonitus stuff but can't recall which one(s) have a deesser setting. I don't really want to load the tracks up with the Vintage Channel (guitar tracks... lots and lots of guitar tracks).
 
Perhaps one of you fine gentlemen could refresh my memory? Thanks.

Thanks sharke. Trying to avoid the really heavy duty/resource hungry ones for track by track use though. Not even sure it'll do much for these guits but thought I give it a try. Not sure how effective a deesser would be on a bus considering it seems like something that should be focused on specific frequencies of specific tracks.
 
Meh. They do already sound pretty slick (everything I do aside from HP/LP/notch filtering takes away from the sound). Probably overthinking it as usual. Just wanted to experiment. Cheers.

You could use the Sonitus Multiband Compressor as a de-esser. Here is an old knowledge base article about it http://www.cakewalk.com/s...reader.aspx/2007013063

scook
You could use the Sonitus Multiband Compressor as a de-esser. Here is an old knowledge base article about it http://www.cakewalk.com/s...reader.aspx/2007013063

Thanks, scook. I am familiar with that technique but didn't have a text based tut so that's been bookmarked. I was going to give that a try if I couldn't find this imaginary deesser I seem to have dreamed up (lol... I must be going crazy-er). For these specific tracks though I think I've got with just the EQ. Kind of surprised me actually but I guess there's a reason I love TH2 so much. Very easy to work with. If I was GR I'd probably be doing all sorts of wacky stuff to get it how I like.
 
One thing I did too was turn the TH2 gate completely off since there isn't any "silence" after I trimmed it all. It was having more of an effect on the signal than I thought but when I originally set these tracks up last year I HAD to turn up to where it was to get the noise down. Figured I had to leave it that way but apparently not. Hooray!

It should Beep.

I can't say that I've ever found the VX-64 to be resource hungry.  Quite the opposite.
 
Are you sure you're not confusing it with the LP-64, which is?

Cool. I'll check it out and see how much of a hit the system takes (this project is already running pretty hot). It might do something more beneficial for the leads. The notching and LP/HP really got what little "siminess" of the tracks which is very cool. I'm so obsessive about my guitar sound that I can spend forever trying to get things right if they aren't exactly how I like. Cheers.

Have you gone with X3 yet Beepster? There's a de-esser in the Nomad Factory Blue Tubes package.

Beep, try these:
 
http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5
 
They are very lightweight and actually do a fine job.
 
Spitfish is the one you want, but you might as well download the lot, as they are all free!

Spitfish was great - but 32-bit only - and its settings often do not save correctly in Sonar 64-bit versions.
Try the new SPL de-esser plug-in; it costs $100, but it is VST-3 and 64-bit.
 
Works very well in Sonar.