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J_Pisciotta
J_Pisciotta
Inspiring
October 18, 2019
Question

Correcting Harsh Sibilance in Premiere or Audition

  • October 18, 2019
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Hello!

 

I'm trying to clean up audio on a female voice that has extremely harsh sibilance. I'm using the DeEsser (Female Voice Preset: Center Frequencey: 12000 Hz - Bandwidth: 7500 Hz - Threshold: -70 dB), Dynamics Processing (DeEsser Hard Preset w/minor adjustment), and the Parametric Equalizer w/ the Vocal Enhancer Preset to balance out the frequencies that don't have sibilance but may have been affected by the other effects.

 

The sibilance is essentially gone but now the woman sounds like she has a lisp lol. Going with a higher threshold on the DeEsser (-20 for example) corrects the lisp sound but the sibilance comes back with a vegence. Does anyone have advice for improving the quality?

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    Anonymous
    October 19, 2019

    Have you tuned the frequency around? This video is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-07flDfK4Q

    J_Pisciotta
    J_PisciottaAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 21, 2019

    I watched that video a while back when I first started using the DeEsser. Unfortunately it wasn't helpful in this situation. 

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