How to Use The DeEsser in Adobe Audition

is Mike here for a music radio creative in this video I'll show you how to set a de-esser up in adobe audition so if you've got sounds in adobe audition and you're playing them back in your thinking from washington DC there's a lot of and there's a lot of distortion on that treble ES and ker sounds and anything like that and you want to get rid of that a de-esser is gonna be your best friend so as you can see here I've already opened spectral frequency display in audition how do you do that usually your waveform when you drag it in will look just like this from Washington DC with international house sounds oh there's a lot of SC siblings there well we can certainly reduce it so to access a spectral frequency display click this button here or you can hit Shift + D on your keyboard and there it is now the reason why this is fantastic for de-essing with accuracy is the fact that you've got these wonderful heat maps particularly around the s from washington DC there's one with international house sound there they're there it's their stereo oh and that one is a really good example so what i'm gonna do using here making sure the tools selected is marquis selection in spectral frequency select just the s only there's one and of course we can grab one here and we can grab one here and of course here but I think perhaps the best example of an S here is right here you can see the heat map it goes from purple to red to yellow black is no sound purple a little bit red a bit more yellow loads of sound in that frequency so this is gonna be really really important to do so I've selected it and you can see the main part of the siblings of the S is here this area here which is roughly falling around the sort of late eight K mark up to maybe nine k 9 kilohertz so how do we find out exactly where the heart of the siblings is well this is where you can go into window you can open up the wonderful absolutely fantastic frequency analysis window and then you can you can play this audio most really make that nice and tight around the siblings let's tighten it in right there and then we can loop it clicking the loop button here and take a print there it is and now if I move to somewhere where it's silent and we just look at that noise print I've taken you can see there is a clear peak here this is where the height of the sibilants occurs inside this particular voice and it is different for every voices why I advise that you do it individually for each voice and each setup each microphone can have a different sibilant sound so here what I hover over the spike you will see down here there is a little cursor display and it tells you where your cursor is when you're pointing so I'm pointing here and it's telling me my cursor is kind of roughly around the 8,000 Hertz or the 8 kilohertz mark this is important because now when I get into setting up that de-esser I'm going to select this area of audio to set it on to give you an example go into effects amplitude and compression de-esser and then here I know exactly my center frequency needs to be 8,000 Hertz for you it might be different it might be 8500 it might be seven thousand three hundred but that puts my DSR in the right area and you can see here sibilance kind of starts around 6,000 Hertz and ends around 15,000 so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna increase the bandwidth ever so slightly make it 4,000 Hertz this is what you can get really advanced you can open up the preview window here and you can actually see in real time the effect your DSA is having now if i zoom in there you can see here you go this yellow section has got a lot less visible let's switch it off yellow comes back in switch it back on and it's going off now I can increase the bandwidth a bit more and see how it affects things you see increasing it actually hasn't helped it's actually really probably hindered so let's stay on 4000 Hertz for the moment Washington DC with international house sounds it's the stereo house kept okay you can see that the gain reduction is kicking in when the sibilance is occurring this is what we want we can probably go a bit higher the most important thing is to make sure when you're setting up this threshold here that the gain reduction isn't kicking in all the time and that is only kicking in during the sibling parts of your audio so let's reduce this down to let's go down to minus 40 to start with around minus 40 there we go from Washington DC with International House sounds it's the stereo house cast from Washington DC with International House sound so I'd say that's actually working pretty well and again at minus 40 DB on threshold you can now see this sibilance is really disappearing here and this is the way you can really accurately set up a de-esser in Adobe Audition I'm gonna reduce it even further let's go down to around minus 50 and see what happens there from Washington DC okay now you can see the gain reduction is just kicking in all the time we do not want this let's go to minus forty four point three Washington DC with again still kicking in so let's easy outlines for you well I think in DC with International House sounds it's the stereo house cast okay and I'm pretty happy with what I've got there so DSR setup with accuracy now we can look at before and after in the preview window so you can see where these yellow spots are where the esses are they are very much disappearing especially this really se sibling sound very much reduced using de-esser so now you know how you can set up a de-esser with accuracy in adobe audition first of all get your waveform in go into spectral frequency view use the frequency analysis window take a print of the s sound find the peak of that put it in as the center frequency play around with your bandwidth and finally set up your threshold so it's only doing the gain reduction on the SE and sibilance sounds but not on the rest of the speech and you will have a super-sweet de-esser in your audio chain let me know how you get on with DSA leave a comment below [Music]

Channel: Mike Russell

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Keywords: adobe audition, adobe audition cc, adobe learn, adobe audition deesser, deesser tutorial

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Length: 6min 39sec (399 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 08 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/TimeForGoToBed]

Thanks for taking the time to make a tutorial!

[u/Raaphorst]

A de-esser is a multiband compressor. That is a compressor that simply compresses a certain frequency range. Here's an example I made in Ableton Live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka3UoiZ4gWA

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You can simply create this in any DAW.