[Tachikoma]

You know when singers pronounce "S", it becomes a really sharp "hiss" and it hurts your ears? I was looking for some sort of EQ to help reduce that "essing" effect, but after some googling all I found were some audio processing programs like Waves De-esser. What I need is an EQ setting, or EQ program that works with foobar2000 (0.8.3), so could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

 

[Fitz]

The word you're looking for is 'sibilance', that may give you some better results. I don't really know any actual EQ for it though, since I don't use EQ (I always make things sound worse than before

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[viper_45]

Try reducing 15k.

 

[Tachikoma]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fitz The word you're looking for is 'sibilance', that may give you some better results. I don't really know any actual EQ for it though, since I don't use EQ (I always make things sound worse than before ).

haha, I'm not the one who made up the "essing" term >_>

15k... ok I'll give that a try. anything else?

 

[Mikenet]

I believe de-essing normally occurs in the 5-7KHz range...but is done with a multiband compressor. I don't know if you can get resonable results with an EQ. It depends on the source material. If it's just vocals, it's probably doable.