Originally Posted By: Kemmrich
There was too much compression, but when I tried to ease off, I lost some feeling and got to many "esss" on Janet's part. The de-esser didn't seem to help too much and the DR rating went from 9 to 7! So I just restored that one from backup!

Backups are good! laugh

I've got a lateral 'S', so I'm particularly sensitive to silibance. I've tried various automated ways to tame it, but I always come back to the same method: zoom in, draw an volume envelope around the offending bit, and manually adjust it. Works like a charm.

You don't want to overdo it (like I tend do) or you end up with a sliced-and-diced performance with all the life sucked out of it. But fixing the main trouble spots means that you can ease back on the other settings a bit, because the rest of the signal chain doesn't have to try to fix it.


-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?