When working with Sibiliant Vocals, you will usually find two different opinion’s. One camp will swear by manual editing, while the other claims that a good De-Esser can get the job done. I myself land somewhere in between. For me, a bit of manual editing of some sort combined with a De-Esser sounds the best to my ears.
Having said that, this doesn’t necessarily mean that one has to do all this editing 100% manually! In fact, its quite the opposite. Wherever I can find a quick way speed up a process like this, Im game. Which leads me to the point of this article.
A while back, our good friends at Synchro Arts released Revoice Pro 3.3. Along with a bunch of different features aimed specifically at Studio One users, Revoice Pro 3.3 also added a new function which gives users control over the level of ‘un-pitched’ voicing’s. So this would cover anything like T’s, K’s, Esses, and breaths, etc. In addition, they added a couple shortcut’s which allow the user to quickly access and modify the level in 3 db increments, or freely.
If you haven’t already put it together, then I’ll drop a small hint. This happens to be an amazing tool for manually adjusting Sibiliant Vocal tracks without having to automate, or cut up your audio events! There’s a nice visual indication as to where these ‘un-pitched’ voicing’s are located, and the workflow is relatively simple.
Check out the above video to see the workflow in action & feel free to leave your comments below.
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