Hi, James.

I love the backstory. Just the sort of thing I'd say. laugh

Nice singing, with the caveat about the sibilance. I've never had much luck with de-essers. I'll normally go through my entire vocal and find the problem consonants, which are typically a sibilant or plosive, and then manually bring them down in volume. Some DAWs allow you to draw automated volume envelopes to control the volume in trouble spots. I'd also suggest manually shortening the duration of some of the /S/ sounds at the end of some of the words. Just cut the waveform off, and draw in a fade at the end.

The Musio instruments sound fine, although they're a bit far in the background, so they didn't get that much attention. And that's fine.

I was looking at Musio earlier this year, but between the slow instrument download times and the overlap of instruments I already had, I decided to pass. I'm in the process of getting ready to upgrade my computer, so I'm doing an inventory of all the instruments I've got on my computer, so I can figure out how to re-authorize them on the new one. I've got so many I can't really justify buying anymore.

Except for that Instant Cello by Virharmonic, because it's on sale and you can never have too many cellos, right? And there's also... wink

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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