Question / Help [Audio] How you fight sibilance?

[grahoo87]

How do you fight sibilance? You know, those annoying "sss", "sh", etc. sounds that are higher in volume than other letters. In polish language "s", "sz", "ś", "ć", "ź", "cz" are common phones and often those phones are louder than the other. Can I fight them? Some kind of VST? Compressor? EQ? I need help please

 

[axd]

there's no easy solution for now - sibilance can be fought by use a side chain that controls a compressor, but this is not (yet?) possible in OBS.
Possibly there is a way to process the audio in an external app.

 

[Narcogen]

OBS has a compressor filter built-in now and it has sidechain capability, but it can't sidechain from the same device.

A filter using an EQ VST plugin might work.

https://theproaudiofiles.com/vocal-sibilance/

 

[DEDRICK]

A de-esser is a bandpassed compressor, it only gain reduces a specific frequency range but you have to be delicate with it or will you end up sounding unnatural

You can use ReaComp and band pass the Input Detector to only activate between 3000-6000Hz( you have to determine your silibance range), there is actually a De-esser buried in ReaJS but I forget which folder it is under.