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Is there a de-essing option in AA and how do I access it?

mcm · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:29 am Post subject:

Effects/Amplitude/Dynamics Processing/ then scroll through the Presets to "De-esser". Don't use "High S", it will leave yr VO sounding like mud. Medium is a good one, but try highlighting a small section of the recording and then applying it so you can see just what it's doing.

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THANKS MARY

I knew I had seen it before...just didn't remember where

Hart · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:47 am Post subject:

There's actually more than one. I use 1.5 so if you are on a different version it may be different.

In addition to the one Mary mentioned you can try:

Effects - Filters - FFT Filter - desser preset (I use this one alot)

Seems like several of the Graphic EQ presets help with deessing as well even though they aren't called that. I generally start with a preset then tweak as needed.

mcm · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:55 am Post subject:

Another thing that's easy, if you only have a few troublesome esses, is to highlight them and reduce the volume yourself. If the s has a very high peak in the middle, like a whistle, I often have great success just carefully highlighting that part and deleting it. Sometimes I even find an s that I like better and do a transplant.

Of course, you gotta listen afterwards to make sure it sounds good.

Hart · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

mcm · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:22 am Post subject:

I love it when transplants work. I had a few last week that I totally didn't think would work, - a present tense that needed to be a past tense, and a singular that needed to be a plural. But OMG they did work. And when I was recording my narration demo I had "one of the most asked about" and I could not say it!! It came out sounding like "assed about". But I took one of the k's from one of my attempts and put it in and presto! I increased the volume a bit to make it sound more obvious that it was there, but it turns out I actually needed to reduce the volume to make it sound natural....

I really shouldn't get going on the joys and satisfactions of this editing technique - but one does savor one's little triumphs....

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gotta admit when i say asked it sounds like assed too. at least i'm not axing about it.

Hart · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

speaking of phrases, I had to voice a spot today that started with the words "mobile professionals." I don't know why, but I just couldn't say it. Must have tried 30 times before I said "%^&* IT!" and recorded them independantly and edited it together.

mcm

This morning I was editing some short .wav files in Audition. I had highlighted a bit to delete at the end of the file, and suddenly the program wanted to shut down. It told me I had to shut down and continue anon. Fortunately I had been saving frequently, as usual, and did not lose anything. But it happened 2 more times. Very alarming. Anybody else have this experience?

Windows XP Pro, 1 GB of RAM, tons of storage space.

Hart · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:06 am Post subject:

Yeah, Audition on my work machine likes to shut down at random times. It doesn't happen very often and I haven't figured out a pattern to it. I think it has to do with my audio interface locking up but I'm not sure.

Usually when it does that, when it restarts it asks if I want to continue where I left off. That works most of the time. Once, it didn't. I hadn't saved recently. Frown

Had to go find the tmp file and trick it into opening. I should have written down how I did that for future reference, but I didn't.
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Frank F · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:16 am Post subject:

It's an anomoly based on how fast you "click" items and how many clicks you do when processing or editing...

Had 39 minutes of audio recorded last week, hadn't saved recently... it died on me... boy was I upset, found the .tmp file and brought it back... luckily. Saved immediately!

Simple fix, slow down. Unfortunately the computer doesn't "think" as fast as we do... Oh, Adobe has NOT "fixed" the problem in Version 2.0.

Frank F

mcm · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:58 am Post subject: