So we want those parts of the vocals to cut through more, and make them extra bright. So let’s just listen to these separately.Īlright, so one idea that I have is now that we’re removing a lot of the high frequency content, we can even bring up the level more for the part here that’s on the voice track. Now we can control their relative level here by using the channel fader, and then we can also think about how we want to process them independently. This one is going to be, then, just the ess sounds. So this track by itself is going to be almost exclusively the voice part of the singing performance. Now we’re performing the maximum amount of gain reduction on the sibilant sounds, on the ess sounds. We’re going to crank the range all the way up. Then I’m going to go over here to the original one, and I’m going to turn it off. So because we have this auditioning button that allows us just to hear the sibilant sounds, I’m going to keep that button on for this plug-in. So I’m even going to name it here, “ess.”
My idea is to use one of the tracks as the regular voiced part of the singing performance, and this other track as the ess part. I’ve got the lead vocal on this one, click duplicate, we’re going to keep all of the processing in place to begin with. So what I’m going to do here is duplicate this track. Next, let me show you my idea for performing parallel processing. It’s going to remove then, for us, all of the sounds that are voiced that we wouldn’t want to perform dynamic range reduction on. What it allows us to do is just listen to the part that’s detecting as the sibilant sounds, or the ess sounds. Let me show you some of the features in action.Īnother cool feature about the plug-in is it has this headphone button. So we can audition that sound using this button here. Then we’re going to use this filter here to figure out what frequency range we want to be listening for. Then the range is the amount of reduction that we want.
As with all de-essers, you’re going to be doing some dynamic range amplitude reduction, so we’re going to set some threshold where we want this to kick in. So here I’ll activate the plug-in, and show you the basic features. I’ll show you the basic processing, and I’m going to show you some cool features about it that will open up some new opportunities for us to start doing parallel processing.
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I’m going to be using here the Fab-Filter Pro DS. This is where the de-esser is going to come in.
The issue is, those kinds of processors working together are also going to make the sibilant sounds a little bit too loud. So here, I’m just using a basic compressor to decrease the dynamic range, and then an equalizer to help it cut through more by bringing up some of the high frequencies. Now let’s just isolate the vocals and listen for the ess sounds and also the “tuh” sounds. What I’ll do first is play the vocals in the context of the music with the de-esser turned off, and then we’ll focus on the vocals by themselves.
I’ve added a compressor and an equalizer, but I’ve noticed that the sibilant parts of my song are too loud, almost to the point that they’re getting to be distracting. I’m working on a song where I’m trying to bring the levels of the vocals up to cut through the rest of the music. I’ve got a trick to show you about de-essing your vocals using parallel processing.