From the course: Adobe Audition: Mixing Music and Dialog
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Reduce sibilance with the de-esser - Audition Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Audition: Mixing Music and Dialog
Reduce sibilance with the de-esser
- [Instructor] Sibilance is the overly harsh sound you can get when someone says words with the letter S or S-H or C-H in them. It can be really noticeable and quite distracting and unpleasant to listen to. But by using an effect called a de-esser, we can target just those particular sounds and reduce them. So in my session here, I have a recording where the interview subject is using a lot of S-words and it's really standing out. Let's have a listen to it. It's just our last track here, I'll just solo this. And I'll jump to around about the section where he's the most sibilant. Let's have a listen. - [Man] And you really see this stuff firsthand. That's when that lesson gets rooted very deeply in your DNA. - [Instructor] Okay, so, it's worth mentioning that this was already quite noticeable in the original recording. But because I've added some effects to this track, most notably parametric equalizer and tube-modeled compressor, I've probably emphasized those sibilant sounds even…
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