De-esser plugin

**roaldz** · June 13th, 2008

Hello,

I was wondering if any of you guys are having the same problems as I have. I´m mixing some band with ardour and jamin, and I really need a de-esser for the lead vocals. I can only find 1 de-esser, found in the TAP plugins pack. This de-esser doesn´t work. I can´t understand why, all other plugins just work.
I´m running 2.6.24-19-generic x64 on an Intel C2D 2.0, 2 gig RAM.

Please help me with the TAP de-esser, or point me to an alternative!

Thank you

**roaldz** · June 13th, 2008

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**roaldz** · June 13th, 2008

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**roaldz** · June 14th, 2008

cmon, help me

I´ve helped you too!

**roaldz** · June 14th, 2008

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**roaldz** · June 15th, 2008

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**thorgal** · June 15th, 2008

don't know about a good de-essing plugin but :

1- can you re-record the vocals with a filter of some sort ?

2- if not, can you analyze the vocal frequencies and spot which frequency range poses problem ? I would guess the essing effect is occupying a very narrow bandwitdh (I don't really know, I never faced this problem). Could you try to spot it and work with some EQ or use a very frequency restricted compression ?

**roaldz** · June 15th, 2008

Originally Posted by thorgal

don't know about a good de-essing plugin but :

1- can you re-record the vocals with a filter of some sort ?

2- if not, can you analyze the vocal frequencies and spot which frequency range poses problem ? I would guess the essing effect is occupying a very narrow bandwitdh (I don't really know, I never faced this problem). Could you try to spot it and work with some EQ or use a very frequency restricted compression ?

No, I can´t re-record the vocals, because it´s a live gig.
De-essing is in fact a compressor with a bandfilter, but I can´t find a way to cleverly chain these together to make a de-esser.. I´ve tried to use the SC2/3 compressor on a seperate buss in ardour, and feed it with only 5/6KHz, but that gave me internal feedback..

Don´t you find it weird that there´s only 1 LADSPA de-esser plugin available? The TAP-de-esser is mostly made for ardour, so I´m a bit confused..

Thank you for your reply.

Roald

**thorgal** · June 15th, 2008

what do you mean by "internal feedback" ??
... do you need to reroute through a bus ? why don't you use these plugins in the track post fader directly (i.e. internal insert) ? ardour is non destructive so unless you freeze the track explicitely, you still keep the original audio.