Sound for Video Session — Sibilance, De-ess, & Q&A

What is sibilance? How can you tell whether it is a problem in your audio? How does a de-esser work? When should you use a de-esser? We'll look into all of this on this week's session and then we'll answer your sound for video questions.​





Copyright 2024, Curtis Judd

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[alekseyleonov]

Thank you for the hard work.
Soundspeed and you - best audio channels for video. ❤

[roryonabike]

I'd just like to mention that the Schoeps CMC641 supercardiod has a flat frequency response in the 5-8kHz range Curtis refers to. Indeed, there's a very slight dip. It may well capture sibilance in someone's voice, but it isn't contributing to it. A sound mixer on Jeff Wexler's forum once wrote "Shoeps, particularly with thin female voices, would record the sibilance so well that my ears would explode by the end of the day and my dubbing mixers would be using de-essers."

[manutecsounds]

Hi i am new to RX10, not able to find Limiter why? Which option can we use instead?