How to EQ Spit in Vocal

My latest song, after mixing and mastering, has spots where my spit (saliva) is noticeable, at least to me. Without the compression it sounds fine. Anyone ever run into this and have any EQ suggestions that I might try without doing the vocal parts over. Thanks. 

I like to add a little 8K to my spit.  It helps it have more body.

I had a vocal that got a little breathy once and used Robbie's technique with good success. Trim the wave form close to the spot that you want to cut back on and then do a fast slope curve.

Thanks for the replies, guys. Will see what I can do with the slope.
 
Here's the song I'm referring to. Posted it a few weeks back in the song forum. Didn't mention it when I posted it and no one said anything about it but I notice it a lot. But as they say, my own worst critic. Any critiques on the spit is appreciated.
 
http://soundcloud.com/sparkplugjohnny/class-of-63-50-years
 
 

I just finished "re-recording" 4 vocal tracks... For my good friend Mr. No999. It took several days.
 
Vocals are "tricky?" 
 
And compressing them, EQing them, making them sit in the mix? It's all tricky. However, a song with vocals? The vocals 1) must be heard, 2) must be legible? (however they are clearly not always) and 3) "See 1)" It's tricky to make them sit right in the mix. If it's done correctly, you don't notice it. If it's done "incorrectly?" you notice it every time...
 
IMNSHO, a song with vocals tells a story? And at the end of the song, you should  be able to ask someone who just heard it for the 1st time, OK, 1) What is the name of the song? (it's in the hook), 2) What is the song about? i.e., what is it saying? And if it is well written, well performed, well recorded, and well mixed? Then they should be able to answer those questions with no problems. 
 
A song w/vocals is fine with Lead instruments? However, the vocals should take "center stage..." They are conveying the meaning and the message of the song. As a lyricist, and a singer, I have STRONG opinions on this subject.

Dupe 2.

Jeff, thanks a lot for your input. Glad you like it. I wrote this song for my high school class' 50th reunion. Want it to be perfect and the saliva really stands out in spots to me. For my vocal I used Izotope's Nectar and one of their presets. To me it made my voice sound like I wanted to hear. But the compression brought out the spit. :-) Trade offs in everything, I guess.
 
The Band19, thanks again for your input.

Nice job on the tune Chas. I didn't hear any spit sounds.

try an expander/gate on your vocals. play with the threshold until the vocals sound natural. if the spit sound isn't too loud then this may clean most of it with minimal effort. then, as someone said, get a pop filter and sing off-axis to the mic so that the sss sounds, spit, breathing, etc., go "past" the mic. with practice you can learn to control those sounds and your mic position while singing to reduce those noises.

Can't speak on the spit thing Chas...but man, I sure did love that song and the mix! I don't visit the song forum much anymore (unfortunately) so I didn't know it was posted.
 
The only thing I'd tweak on this mix is the ssssssssssss on the cymbals. They just seem a bit overly bright to me. But everything else was awesome and well balanced...for what it's worth. GREAT drum sound too...what did you use on that?
 
The spit thing is a hard thing to fix AFTER the fact. De-essers, slip editing, fliters, and sometimes even light noise reduction choosing the right frequency can help with this. Heck there's actually tools in Adobe Audition that have helped me remove some weird things that nothing else has...so most times, you just have to experiment. If compression is what brought it on, you can always lessen the compression and just run more automation. That's really what we're supposed to do...but compressors have made us lazy at times....so we use a bit more than we should because sometimes the automation on a vocal can be a real drag. LOL!
 
Anyway, great job on the song....I say leave the spit...it sounds fine to my ears brother. No one else will notice but you. Remember...even when something is sometimes blatantly obvious, no one will ever be as close to the stuff as you...so it will pass right by them. Short story real fast...
 
I played at Harborfest in Oswego NY a few weekends ago, 54,000 people. Our bassist had a real problem with his bass rig. We were on the chopping block having never played this place before...so they were watching our every move like hawks. We won them all over of course and will be back next year....but when his bass rig went down, me and the singer sprung into action to do a (we do a Van Halen tribute show) Eddie and Dave call and answer without missing a beat. From there, I got the dumb idea to go into "Take Your Whiskey Home" which the band hadn't played in about 4 months just to do the intro to kill time. The bassist fixed his rig and we went right into that song.
 
At the end of the show, people came up to us telling us how much they loved the show and what puzzled me was....about 10 of them said "awesome job trying to fool us with the bass rig going down...we knew that was part of the show!" To us, this was such a blatant error....how could they think it was part of the show? Well, we didn't let them think any different and replied with "yep, you figured us out...darn it!" This was a visual...yours is just audio....moral of the story brother....don't sweat it, you did a fantastic job all across the board and no one will know unless you tell them. :)
 
-Danny

ditto... as I listened, I couldn't hear anything that stuck out to me.  I think perhaps if I could hear the vox soloed as you can, then perhaps yes, BUT... when in the mix the vocals sounded fine.
 
The mix can cover a multitude of minor issues so ... while this is something that you heard and were concerned about, most listeners would never hear it if you didn't point it out..... so learn to correct this issue with singing technique now that you are aware of it.... and keep recording some rocking tunes.