Waves Sibilance

Waves Sibilance

The Waves Sibilance breaks down sound into basic, individual components prior to processing. When Sibilance recognizes unwated “ess” and also “shh” vocal sounds, it reduces only their levels without affecting other components even ones with high frequencies. The result is an ultra-precise de-essing.

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Description

The surgical solution to better vocals. Remove harshness and keep original brightness and tone. Sibilance bypasses conventional de-essing by identifying the various vocal componentes not just the frequencies that create harsh “s” and “sh” sounds. It then removes only these components: this way you can retain all of the vocal’s original brightness and even add brightness with additional EQ if needed without making the vocal harsher.

Customize your criteria for de-essing. Choose the width of the sound to be minimized narrow for ess transients, wide for shh sounds. Mode determines the frequency range being affected, from the full bandwidth to just the highs. Real-time visual analysis. The sibilance detection graph provides real-time, visual confirmation of your edits. You’ll see de-essing as it occurs, overlaid on the waveform, as well as the amount of de-essing that’s being applied.

Innovative deessing with organic resynthesis. Sibilance achieves its breakthrough precision de-essing thanks to its Waves Organic ReSynthesis engine. Whereas most de-essers act like narrow-band compressors, Organic ReSynthesis breaks down each sound into its core elements, such as carrier and envelope, allowing surgical control of each element and leaving the rest of the signal untouched.

Features

For vocals, dialogue, voiceover and podcasting, no other de-esser maintains the original timbre, duration and also resonance of the human voice as well or as effectively as Waves Sibilance.

• Organic ReSynthesis keeps brightness and removes harshness
• Retains the vocal’s original tone even with heavy de-essing
• Variable frequency range for de-essing from wide to split-band
• Informative graph shows de-essing occurrence and also amount
• Variable detection mode for transients or longer ess sounds
• Includes zero-latency version for live performance

Tech Specs

Mac

• macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14, Sequoia 15
• VST / AU / AAX

PC

• Windows 10+
• VST / AAX

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