idea was to go into the direction of the kind of the techno style we listened to in the mid/late 90s. means a fat kick drum and some minimalistic melodies to keep you emotionally involved while stomping around on the dancefloor. and a preacher. got a bit too modern sounding, a bit too cheesy and way faster than the songs back then used to be. but the priniciple is there.
so, does the mix make sense? i spent the last two days on moving sliders and turning knobs and every time something else feels too loud or too quiet.
then, i took the vocals from a youtube video. it had a lot of plops and hisses in it. googled around and found no easy solution. added then a highpass filter and drew an automation curve for the cutoff to remove the low frequencies on all the p and t, etc. worked ok for many, but not all cases. is there a better method or an inexpensive plugin that does that automatically?
Ableton’s Compressor has a de-esser setting. The params are: EQ on, Filter type is the hexagon with the sticks sticking out at the sides, Freq = 6.00 KHz, Gain = 0, Ratio = 3.00:1, Attack = 0.02 ms, Release = 100ms, Auto = off, Thresh = -15.2 dB, Knee = 6.0 dB, Env = Log, Makeup = off, Compressor type = Peak.
You could manually reduce the volume of the vocals at the point of hissing.
thanks a lot. made the song in fl studio but have a de-esser in the waves plugin pack i bought ages ago. let’s see what it’s good for. if it doesn’t work i’ll export the voice track to ableton live and try the compressor there.
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