So aside from my issues with plosives and sibilance is my overall sounding better as far as not being boxy or buzzy now?
That’s up to Trebor. He has good ears for that sort of thing.
I can give you a little push with DeEssing.
The current default DeEsser is by Paul L from here.
I use it at these settings after mastering.
You can experiment particularly with that first setting, Threshold or sensitivity. Those settings as posted do work, but not enough.
I’ll apply what I’m learning tonight to tame down the hissing etc in my narration.
Don’t bet the farm on that. There is no known cure for an essy microphone either before or after narration. I would give anything to be able to tell people which towel to throw over the microphone to stop it from doing that.
Essing has very clear symptoms in the Audacity measuring tools, but none of that measuring and testing has resulted in a way to get rid of it.
Read this illustration as increasing pitch left (thunder and earthquakes) to right (air-leaking-hiss and tinkly bells). Louder is up.
That lump on the right is artificial. Your normal voice doesn’t do that. I know you’re saying to yourself now, “Well, just get rid of it.” It didn’t work. If you use the normal sound tools to make that go away, your voice turns into talking-under-a-blanket mud. There has to be voice content analysis algorithms and that makes my head hurt.
Koz