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<TimothyDavid@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Folks,
>
> I'm putting together and mixing tracks from original
> master tapes circa 1966-1970. I've dumped each individual
> track down to Audition 1.0, during playback of the vocal
> tracks I noticed a few instances of a terrible sibilance
> on the male lead voice. I have tried for days to rid
> myself of this sibilant S and I can't get rid of it. I
> believe extreme compression settings were used on the
> lead vocal tracks during mixing back in the late 60's
> driving the tracking into the limiting range causing the
> sibilance to be within the same decibel range as the rest
> of the vocal take.
>
> Any help/suggestion are welcome. The decibel boost on the
> sibilant frequency range is around the 7 decibel mark
> from 5k to 8k.
>
> I have tried Waves C1 (direct x) with de-ess settings and
> fiddling from there but I can only seem to compress a
> narrow range of frequency i.e. 6.5k to 7k. I also have
> Waves C4 but absolutely can not get it to compress/limit
> the frequency ranges I set it to.

One "can't fail" approach. Use Audition's scientific or FFT
filter to roll off the high end of the vocal track fairly
abruptly.