Voice improvement - consolidated effects

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  1. Removed rattling sounds

My mike had been on a cheap stand that vibrated, and added rattling. Trebor was kind enough to provide the following preset for the Equalizer that solved this:
reduce-rattle.XML (10.5 KB)
Here is what it looked like in the equalizer:
Reduce rattle.PNG
6. De-essed

Removed the “S” sibilance. I tried Paul’s De-Esser available here, but it does not use a relative algorithm, and squashed some of my audio to sound very muffled. So Trebor recommended the Sibalance CM plug-in, which uses a relative approach and works better. Here is how to get it.

I applied this effect twice, because as for a lot of VST plugins, the applied effect is not very strong.

Here are the settings. Note that the -160 on the bottom left is actually -10, a GUI glitch. Just see -10 when you look at -160 :slight_smile: Also, I selected the “man” setting, clicking the picture of the man with a tie second from the left.
Sibalance CM.PNG
7. Added presence

After de-essing reduced some of the higher frequencies a bit, I boosted some of them with Marvel GEQ, available here.

Here are the settings I used, perhaps should have added more.
Marvel GEQ.PNG
(Multi-part posting continued in next post.)