Re: New Firmware
Nobody's jumping down your throat. My comment was maybe a bit flippant or whatever, but controlling your sibliants and plosives isn't exclusive to choir singing and has got everything to do with good singing and mike technique. Telling your singer to control certain aspects of his/her singing is legitimate and certainly not lame. I totally get that a de-esser is a usefull tool, particularly when you want the vocal to have exessive bite and clarity without it sounding totally ridiculous.
I teach singers to use mike technique and vocal tricks to improve the sound, and that can be so much more effective than trying to fix it later in the chain. When someone spits and boom their "p" and hizzes their "s", you can put all the filters in the world in there, try other mikes, put windshields and pop-filters on and get to an acceptable result, and sometimes that is your job, but don't scorn other solutions, because sometimes they work, and that is why peole are suggesting them, not to annoy you.
And for not knowing that you mix rock bands and not choirs or anything else, please forgive our ignorance, if I or anybody else here had realized it was THE Randy Martin, we would not have made such a silly mistake. Please don't get your shirt dirty rolling on the floor.
