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Does anyone know of a good and free De-Esser plugin and or even have one they could share?

I'm trying to remove some horrible sibilance in a vocal track but not having much luck with the Audacity plugin or EQ.

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Tex wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 11:31 pm Does anyone know of a good and free De-Esser plugin and or even have one they could share?

I'm trying to remove some horrible sibilance in a vocal track but not having much luck with the Audacity plugin or EQ.

Thanks.
Spitfish De-Esser is free and what I've used for years. Comes as a VST plugin.
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I never could download it.
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The vocals on Revolver are very sibilant on some tracks. I wonder if they changed vocal microphones for those sessions.

I tried the two on board de-essers in two of my DAWs and no go.

Anyways I've resorted to using a narrow filter in or around 8900 and up to 9200 hz depending on the song and that seems to tame the sssss.
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What we do know is that they changed engineers. Maybe the wunderkind Geoff Emerick was still not on Norman Smith's level.
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