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Subject:Compression sibilence in master!
Posted by: martin7
Date:1/12/2007 2:24:11 AM

I've been playing a selection of my thing on different systems - sounds fine on headphones/ipod but on certain speakers the VO(Male) is notably silbilent in a way which makes me wonder whether it's related to the level of compression. Is there a value/parameter that I could adjust (using Waves C1) down to test this? I don't want to lower the deesser threshold too much as is sounds muddy. Plug in settings -

C1: low ref;makeup -1.7;threshold -15.6;ratio 2.41:1; attack 2.72 ; release 50 ; pdr 6

L1 : threshold -.3 ; out ceiling -.3 ; release 10.00

deEsser - audio 'split' ; freq 2000; sidechain 'highpass'; threshold -29.4

thanks,
m7

Message last edited on1/12/2007 1:34:17 PM bymartin7.
Subject:RE: Compression sibalence in master!
Reply by: DKeenum
Date:1/12/2007 7:13:54 AM

Maybe someone else can help more, but I'll start. Yes, compression effects sibilence... in a bad way. It brings it out!

What about trying the desser (waves?) followed by a multi-band compressor? Also, you could compress the background tracks and the VO seperately. Just something to try.

Subject:RE: Compression sibilence in master!
Reply by: martin7
Date:1/12/2007 1:33:26 PM

Ah yes, I see....

Message last edited on1/12/2007 1:57:43 PM bymartin7.

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