de-essing with sidechain comp?

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bosone
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Post by bosone »

hi!
i'm currently recording a duo (ac.guitar and voice, two friends of mine). in the first try of voice recording, the singer has a TOOOO loud sibilants "s"....
so, i adopted the following home-de-essing method:
i route the voice track on a CW compressor and to a eq with a highpass set at about 4000Hz. the eq out is then routed to the comp.sidechain.
the compressor has a very low threshold, attack=0, release about 100ms and ratio about 2.0:1.
in this way i succeeded in reducing the sibilance.
is it a correct way?

after this process the voice came thru a "normal" compressor (set for voice), eq, PsyQ, delay set to tempo (and very low "wet" setting) and finally masterverb ("vocal wonder" preset a bit tweaked).

what do you think?
it's my first time on voice... :smile:
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Post by kensuguro »

sounds ok to me depending on the situation. Does the end result sound fine? I think that's all that matters in terms of de-essing.
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Post by Immanuel »

You may get a better result, if you use a peak equaliser. Find the bad frequency, boost it, and use that signal as sidechain. I believe, that is actually the way de-essers are made.

If you get the the Q, frequency and gain set very exact, the compressor may even work very nicely as a normal compresser in the same go.

If your track sounds right - then don't worry.
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