Subtle and sometimes effective but always the last approach as it gets a little too obvious for my liking. This way if you are finding a little to much lisp, you can use an EQ with a small Q to boost some of the ess back in above the offending ESS freq. Now, Ive done all the recording already (and it took a while to do) and also I. Although I usually use this after the initial bass guitar compression to get rid of resonance that gets created with compression of that particular instrument, it also works with esses.Īs well, I usually eq AFTER the desser. The problem is that naturally when I speak the s sound comes out quite harsh. As opposed to just getting rid of the highs with a shelf eq type compression, it will grab the ess's with a bell type eq, (if that makes any sense? ) Just set your comp to a fast attack, and super fast release, with a high ratio, and a high thresh hold. :Īnother option which works sometimes is to use the DynIII comp and select only the esssss freq with the listen fucntion (I think thats what its called ) If the singer has a severe case of the essses, sometimes this will work wonders. If the singer is consistent, you can ususally get away with just the de esser, but as we all know, most singers are not, I should know, I am one. Dyn III De Esser in combonation with volume automation is the way I usually go.
