The word sibilance is used to describe a particular type of sound
centered around 7 kHz that occurs most often in vocals when the consonants “s”, “st”, and “ch” etc. are pronounced producing a high pitched tone that is heard as hissing. Sibilance is something that all sound engineers must deal with in vocal recordings as these sounds are quite often much louder then the rest of of the vocal track and are interpreted as an unpleasant tonal harshness.
When sound engineers are interested in removing sibilance the process is called “de-essing” because it is usually the letter “s” that causes the most problems.
De-essing can be done in Ableton in many ways,
however the easiest way is to download and install a 3rd party plugin such as iZotope or Waves. Here’s a brief set of instructions for de-essing in Ableton using 3 different methods.
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