I'm quite sibilant. I make vids up to 1 hour or longer. It would take many hours to clean them up. There is a free de-esser as well as de-clicker plug in for Audacity which outperform the ones that come bundled in Audacity. It only takes minutes now. Just an FYI and you may already know about this. Thanks for the tutorial.
@@melovesblues YT won't let me post a link. Copy and paste in search bar, DeClicker For Free In Audacity! (Put on your good headphones!) Channel is by voice talent Joe Essay. He didn't send me. I just want to pass along the help. I was so frustrated by it. Best wishes
Wow! That's a good tutorial on how to remove hiss and vocal sibilance without De-Esser in Audacity. It's way easier than I expected, thanks a lot, I'll try de-essing with your tutorial right now. I did not expect that you will speak about me, thanks a lot, also have no worries you did pronounce my name correctly ;)
This tutorial was wonderful -- just what I needed for a quick fix without plugins. I can't thank you enough for making this so simple! Instantly subscribed!
I believe for this video it was an Aston Stealth into a Zoom Livetrak L-20. For voice-overs, it is pretty overkill, so if you're looking for reccomendations, the Samson q2u is good, especially if you have a noisy recording environment. If you have a quieter space though, a Blue Snowball or Yeti are both good for their price. If you have a higher budget, a Focusrute Scarlett Solo with either a Shure SM58 (or SM57 if you're a musician) if your enilvironment is noisy, otherwise an AKGP120 or Audio Technica AT2020. For voice-overs, you really don't need to spend more than $200, but if you are a musician looking to record, you might end up spending more. I would also reccomend getting a pop filter as well, especially if you get the SM57. I have a few of these, would you like me to make a comparison video?
Duuuuude, thank you so much for the recommendations! And the comparison video would definitely be helpful. I've been looking to buy new parts for my pc and a decent quality budget mic is one of them.
Thanks for your work. I have a soft voice with a lot of sibilance. I've been trying to get rid of it for a long time but haven't had any good results with an audacity de-esser plugin. I resorted to doing it manually ...ugh! Trying to get the hang of your method, but it seems a bit of a process. I'm trying a noise reduction profile on a section of sibilance that is typical of my speech. Then applying that profile to the whole track knocking it down about 6-10 dbs. Seems to work pretty good and doesn't take too much away from the track. Whaddayathink? Is this a bad way to go? Thanks again for any feedback.
@@tristanogrambuckley4945 what's a little more (maybe a lot more) painstaking but effective is to not only decrease the dbs of sibilance as above but also manually cutting a slice out of especially bad sibilance--making it shorter. I have a tendency to drag out my SSSS. Cutting out a part in the middle of a sibilance makes if shorter and sounds better. there might be a way to do this with noise gate or whatever effect does that, but I haven't learned those effects.
@@Mike-ny6sf Thanks for the tip! I don't usually have too much duration on my sibilant S, so I don't think I'll need that, but boy does this Yeti microphone get /S/picy!
Another thing I'm trying is simply using the filter curve and knocking down the frequency where sibilance seem to be most prominent for my voice, but this doesn't seem to work as well as using noise reduction. All this, of course, is for my particular voice and for podcasts. Wouldn't know about using it for singing and especially for commercial voice over work.
@@tristanogrambuckley4945 Just for your info, I use an ATR 2500. It's inexpensive and seems to do ok for me. As with mics of this type, it minimizes room noise which is great but also has a proximity effect. I have to get within a couple inches to get reasonable gain-ugh! Fine for doing audio podcasts but a little annoying for video. Again, I have a very soft voice. A different mic might do me better for video.
My Audacity doesn't have the Filter Curve option. Do you know why this is? Maybe I'm using an older version of Audacity? (Edit) I updated Audacity and there it was. : )
I'm not sure. See if there is a Graphic EQ. You will know you have it when you see an interface that has a bunch of vertical sliders, each labeled with a frequency.
Any chance you could show us how to actually make that curve? When I try to click and drag, the whole line moves together. How did you get the dip that you are showing here? It's frustrating that you aren't actually showing that part.
That was so useful!! Thank you, your followers will be going up by one today! Thanks again....any more audacity tips coming? I love the software and love your explanations even more. So....pen and paper at the ready......what's next?
Thank you so much! My next video is probably going to be a video on Shotcut, getting the screen to zoom in around the cursor, but after that, I'm going to probably do a video on altering how a voice sounds with equalization. If you have any idea, please let me know!
Thank you for this man. I just moved into a new apartment and my recording space is giving me some unforeseen issues. I sound extremely sibilant all of a sudden. This tutorial really helped, but it also kind of makes the audio sound robotic as a result. Any tips?
Without hearing it, it's tough to figure out what is, but I would guess it is due to too few treble frequencies, relative to everything else. Probably your best bet is to increase the makeup level on the compressor. I hope that helps!
i tried doing this, but it gives me a muffled audio track and a really low quality one. the low quality one has no sibilance, and i can make a sibilanceless version by making it louder. but now it sounds like it was recorded on a 5$ headset microphone. how can i make it sound more full and better?
Sorry, I'm just now seeing this. I'm guessing that the track you've cut the sibilance from you cut too much out of. I would try narrowing the frequency range that you cut out and see if that helps. It's hard to tell without hearing it though.
Sir will you please tell me that which option i am to select after going in Filer curve eq and then manage then default factory setting to reach this place.
It doesn't matter too much, but I would do it earlier because then your ears won't have to suffer. Also, if you get used to hearing it the sibilant way, the better way probably won't sound very good and you would be less likely to fix the audio.
By muffled, are you saying it is less clear, or there is a hiss? If it is just less clear, that is because you are compressing out the higher frequencies, making the audio less clear. The best way to do that is to either eq in more treble (high frequency) or redo the process, but with a more narrow frequency band.
I did exactly what you said and my filter curve didnt have a dip like yours it was all straight. And both tracks get highlighted when i want to select one...IDK if im screwing up on my side or Maybe there was a new update?
Both tracks create the final product. What we are doing is separating the sibilance on to another track so we can effect it differently. When it is on the second track, we can compress that, and reduce the volume if the sibilance. I hope that made sense!
Don't worry about it. In the end, you use both tracks for the final product. What you are doing is removing the sibilance from the first track, and moving it to the second track. When you export, you are combining the two tracks.
Using Audacity 3.3.3 When I adjust the Filter Curve EQ on one wav track, it changes it for both tracks. Its like there's only one Filter Curve EQ even though I have two mono tracks.
It sounds like you might have both tracks selected. If you double click on one track it should only select that track. Another way to get around this would be applying the filter curve to one, then adding the second track, potentially exporting (to save the filtered track) between.
You will want to export both tracks. The reason you want both is because you split the first track into both, and you need both tracks for the normal sound.
Ya descubrí como hacerlo, volví a mirar el video!! A pesar de no hablar ingles me sirvió mucho tu video, eres un crack!! siempre tenia ese problema de las "s" y había visto métodos muy complicados y con tu tutorial quedo ESPECTACULAR, Gracias friend!!
@@rubenpoma5512 hola, pues básicamente lo que hace es "separar" el audio en dos partes, en una( la de arriba) quedan todos los tonos medios y graves, y en la pista de abajo quedan los bajos, es.decir, las.molestas "s" de esta manera a la pista de abajo le bajamos volumen y esto hará que reduzcan notablemente
Great tutorial but my God, you're giving a tutorial in sound control but the levels were so low, you have to turn the volume up. And then... You hit the sibilance part and the volume is very high. The sound was so bad, it sent both my dogs, howling, out of the room.
When changing the settings on the effects, make sure to readjust the volume. You could also lower the overall output volume of Audacity before you export.
Wish I could say it worked. I've now tried this one, a sibilance-cutter EQ by Josh Meyer, and another free de-esser I found on a RUclips video that got great reviews just like this. Nothing is even making the slightest dent that I can detect. Sounds like I'm doing nothing, yet Audacity shows that each has been applied. *sigh*
Try looking for an effect call equalization, or something along those lines and make the same shape. They do the same thing, just with a different interface.
(edited below)this doesn't work for me. I'm looking for how to remove a wistling noise that i'm getting between my teeth on the " s " but i'm not getting that at all with these types of things edited. after adding a second compressor, adding fade starting at 2000 creeping into 4000, it works. i needed two and to reduce gain as shown.
I'm not completely sure if this will work, but you could try experimenting with applying these effects to various frequencies and seeing what works best. It probably won't be perfect, but it might work.
The only reason to use this is if you're having issues installing a de-esser, or can't get one for whatever reason. If it's other frequencies that are lower, this might work better as well.
![[Tutorial] Audacity for ACX - Remove breaths, mouth noises and meet ACX Requirements](/img/1.gif)
I can't believe my ears right now because my track is perfect, cleaned from sibilance... Thank you!
I'm quite sibilant. I make vids up to 1 hour or longer. It would take many hours to clean them up. There is a free de-esser as well as de-clicker plug in for Audacity which outperform the ones that come bundled in Audacity. It only takes minutes now. Just an FYI and you may already know about this. Thanks for the tutorial.
which one is that, could you send a link?
@@melovesblues YT won't let me post a link. Copy and paste in search bar,
DeClicker For Free In Audacity! (Put on your good headphones!)
Channel is by voice talent Joe Essay.
He didn't send me. I just want to pass along the help. I was so frustrated by it. Best wishes
I appreciate the feedback! I would have just used a plugin, but I had gotten a request for not using an additional plugin.
@@BudgetRecording It's all good. There is a lot of information you guys share and we appreciate it.
I'm so glad it is helpful!
SUPER helpful! Easy to follow all the way through. Will definitely come back to review it.
I'm so glad it was helpful!
Wow! That's a good tutorial on how to remove hiss and vocal sibilance without De-Esser in Audacity. It's way easier than I expected, thanks a lot, I'll try de-essing with your tutorial right now.
I did not expect that you will speak about me, thanks a lot, also have no worries you did pronounce my name correctly ;)
Awesome! I'm glad it helped and I pronounced your name correctly.
What a great tutorial. Very helpful, and no plug-in required! Big thanks to you!
This tutorial was wonderful -- just what I needed for a quick fix without plugins. I can't thank you enough for making this so simple! Instantly subscribed!
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful!
Dude, you actually taught me how to do it, i dont need to pay people to do it now!!
Awesome, I'm glad it helped!
The legend of Patrice Laborda echoes on years later.
this was extremely helpful - easy and it worked - thank you!
You're a life saver, thank you! You should post more Audacity tutorials!
Thanks for this video bro I suck with making my S's loud so this was a big help!
I'm really glad this was of years for you!
Thank you for the tutorial!! I really like your style. I hope you start making videos again.
This is a great video, I found it very helpful
Thank you - I am so grateful that you made this video. I admire people such as yourself who make content that helps other people. Good on you
This worked perfectly, thank you so much. I'm a beginner and I never thought I could have audio editing skills but this might make me change my mind!
I'm so glad. To me audio editing is my favorite part!
Far superior method than using Spitfish De Esser. Thanks, this really works.
Thanks! I'm really glad it works, especially better than a plugin!
I have just tried it and you are a lifesaver! Here is a sub! Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge!
No problem. Thank you for the kind words!
omg THANK YOU!! This helped my podcast quality o much. My bucky beaver teeth make the loadest sibilance. Well, no more thanks to your tutorial!!
Learned a lot! Thanks!
This worked soooo well. HUGE thank you!
Thank you so much!! This helped me a lot. God bless you and your YT channel! 🙏💗
this is the best tutorial i was see it in youtube .. thanks my friend
Can I ask what mic you're using?
I believe for this video it was an Aston Stealth into a Zoom Livetrak L-20. For voice-overs, it is pretty overkill, so if you're looking for reccomendations, the Samson q2u is good, especially if you have a noisy recording environment. If you have a quieter space though, a Blue Snowball or Yeti are both good for their price. If you have a higher budget, a Focusrute Scarlett Solo with either a Shure SM58 (or SM57 if you're a musician) if your enilvironment is noisy, otherwise an AKGP120 or Audio Technica AT2020. For voice-overs, you really don't need to spend more than $200, but if you are a musician looking to record, you might end up spending more. I would also reccomend getting a pop filter as well, especially if you get the SM57.
I have a few of these, would you like me to make a comparison video?
Duuuuude, thank you so much for the recommendations! And the comparison video would definitely be helpful. I've been looking to buy new parts for my pc and a decent quality budget mic is one of them.
This tutorial saves my project, thanks bro
Thanks for your work. I have a soft voice with a lot of sibilance. I've been trying to get rid of it for a long time but haven't had any good results with an audacity de-esser plugin. I resorted to doing it manually ...ugh! Trying to get the hang of your method, but it seems a bit of a process. I'm trying a noise reduction profile on a section of sibilance that is typical of my speech. Then applying that profile to the whole track knocking it down about 6-10 dbs. Seems to work pretty good and doesn't take too much away from the track. Whaddayathink? Is this a bad way to go? Thanks again for any feedback.
That is BRILLIANT!
@@tristanogrambuckley4945 what's a little more (maybe a lot more) painstaking but effective is to not only decrease the dbs of sibilance as above but also manually cutting a slice out of especially bad sibilance--making it shorter. I have a tendency to drag out my SSSS. Cutting out a part in the middle of a sibilance makes if shorter and sounds better. there might be a way to do this with noise gate or whatever effect does that, but I haven't learned those effects.
@@Mike-ny6sf Thanks for the tip! I don't usually have too much duration on my sibilant S, so I don't think I'll need that, but boy does this Yeti microphone get /S/picy!
Another thing I'm trying is simply using the filter curve and knocking down the frequency where sibilance seem to be most prominent for my voice, but this doesn't seem to work as well as using noise reduction. All this, of course, is for my particular voice and for podcasts. Wouldn't know about using it for singing and especially for commercial voice over work.
@@tristanogrambuckley4945 Just for your info, I use an ATR 2500. It's inexpensive and seems to do ok for me. As with mics of this type, it minimizes room noise which is great but also has a proximity effect. I have to get within a couple inches to get reasonable gain-ugh! Fine for doing audio podcasts but a little annoying for video. Again, I have a very soft voice. A different mic might do me better for video.
My Audacity doesn't have the Filter Curve option. Do you know why this is? Maybe I'm using an older version of Audacity?
(Edit) I updated Audacity and there it was. : )
I'm not sure. See if there is a Graphic EQ. You will know you have it when you see an interface that has a bunch of vertical sliders, each labeled with a frequency.
@@BudgetRecording Thanks!
No problem! Glad it's working!
this helped a lot!! thank you! my esses are so awful when i talk and this really fixed it
Awesome video. Good to know. I did find a de esser for Audacity from muse FX. Work great.
Oh my God, THANK YOU! Finally something that actually works.
I'm glad it worked for you!
Any chance you could show us how to actually make that curve? When I try to click and drag, the whole line moves together. How did you get the dip that you are showing here? It's frustrating that you aren't actually showing that part.
Dude, this was awesome!
I'm glad it was helpful!
Excellent video!
Hi i want used in USA microphone of max five years old ? How can i get in pakistan?
That was so useful!! Thank you, your followers will be going up by one today! Thanks again....any more audacity tips coming? I love the software and love your explanations even more. So....pen and paper at the ready......what's next?
Thank you so much! My next video is probably going to be a video on Shotcut, getting the screen to zoom in around the cursor, but after that, I'm going to probably do a video on altering how a voice sounds with equalization. If you have any idea, please let me know!
Thank you, this was really helpful
No problem!
Thank you for your very helpful video!!
I love you for this. AMAZING
Very helpful thank my friend :) God Bless You
No problem! Glad I could help.
Amazing video thanks man!!!
Thank you for this man. I just moved into a new apartment and my recording space is giving me some unforeseen issues. I sound extremely sibilant all of a sudden. This tutorial really helped, but it also kind of makes the audio sound robotic as a result. Any tips?
Without hearing it, it's tough to figure out what is, but I would guess it is due to too few treble frequencies, relative to everything else. Probably your best bet is to increase the makeup level on the compressor. I hope that helps!
@@BudgetRecording Thank you!!
Well hello there!
Great vídeo! Very helpful!
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful!
Thank you SO much! It worked perfectly
i tried doing this, but it gives me a muffled audio track and a really low quality one. the low quality one has no sibilance, and i can make a sibilanceless version by making it louder. but now it sounds like it was recorded on a 5$ headset microphone. how can i make it sound more full and better?
Sorry, I'm just now seeing this. I'm guessing that the track you've cut the sibilance from you cut too much out of. I would try narrowing the frequency range that you cut out and see if that helps. It's hard to tell without hearing it though.
Sir will you please tell me that which option i am to select after going in Filer curve eq and then manage then default factory setting to reach this place.
Sorry, I'm a little unclear. Is tye issue that the curve isn't flat when you open the menu?
Thank you! this was excellent, exactly what I needed to remove the pesky Ses from my meditation. Deeply appreciated
Of course! I'm glad it was helpful.
very helpful. Should this be done first in the editing process before I begin other editing?
It doesn't matter too much, but I would do it earlier because then your ears won't have to suffer. Also, if you get used to hearing it the sibilant way, the better way probably won't sound very good and you would be less likely to fix the audio.
Muchísimas gracias, me soluciono audio y funciono excelente. Saludos 👍
When i did it my audio gave of a slight muffle sound im trying to remove that know any good setups?
By muffled, are you saying it is less clear, or there is a hiss? If it is just less clear, that is because you are compressing out the higher frequencies, making the audio less clear. The best way to do that is to either eq in more treble (high frequency) or redo the process, but with a more narrow frequency band.
Really helpful thank you
I did exactly what you said and my filter curve didnt have a dip like yours it was all straight. And both tracks get highlighted when i want to select one...IDK if im screwing up on my side or Maybe there was a new update?
You should be able to click on the filter curve and then draw in the shape that I had, if I'm understanding you correctly.
@@BudgetRecording its ok i figured it our...thanx
OK, I am confused... why create the 2nd sibilance track? The first track with the drop in db is the final product??
Both tracks create the final product. What we are doing is separating the sibilance on to another track so we can effect it differently. When it is on the second track, we can compress that, and reduce the volume if the sibilance. I hope that made sense!
@@BudgetRecording So sorry - it still makes no sense. Are you playing both tracks at the same time? Which is the final product?
Don't worry about it. In the end, you use both tracks for the final product. What you are doing is removing the sibilance from the first track, and moving it to the second track. When you export, you are combining the two tracks.
Using Audacity 3.3.3 When I adjust the Filter Curve EQ on one wav track, it changes it for both tracks. Its like there's only one Filter Curve EQ even though I have two mono tracks.
It sounds like you might have both tracks selected. If you double click on one track it should only select that track. Another way to get around this would be applying the filter curve to one, then adding the second track, potentially exporting (to save the filtered track) between.
Excellent..thank you.
Love the idea of using what you have! Thanks for this channel.
Of course! I'm glad I could help!
And to export how do I?
silence the first track?
or should I export when the 2 tracks are activated?
You will want to export both tracks. The reason you want both is because you split the first track into both, and you need both tracks for the normal sound.
Ya descubrí como hacerlo, volví a mirar el video!!
A pesar de no hablar ingles me sirvió mucho tu video, eres un crack!! siempre tenia ese problema de las "s" y había visto métodos muy complicados y con tu tutorial quedo ESPECTACULAR, Gracias friend!!
@@SuperJAVIERSIYO Pues ahora tu me puedes explicar, pero en nuestro idioma que es lo que hace exactamente, no lo entiendo :( GRACIAS
@@rubenpoma5512 hola, pues básicamente lo que hace es "separar" el audio en dos partes, en una( la de arriba) quedan todos los tonos medios y graves, y en la pista de abajo quedan los bajos, es.decir, las.molestas "s" de esta manera a la pista de abajo le bajamos volumen y esto hará que reduzcan notablemente
@@BudgetRecording What about merging the two tracks together within audacity?
Very helpful. tnx a lot
thank you for tat video, it helps me a lot
I'm glad it was helpful!
Great tutorial but my God, you're giving a tutorial in sound control but the levels were so low, you have to turn the volume up. And then... You hit the sibilance part and the volume is very high. The sound was so bad, it sent both my dogs, howling, out of the room.
I love the Dragon Ball Z reference
thank u so much! i couldnt get the stupid de-esser plugin to install :(
Your sound vs laptop sound
5
ok
when I did it, it doubled the audio output, please HELP.
When changing the settings on the effects, make sure to readjust the volume. You could also lower the overall output volume of Audacity before you export.
Thanks!
Of course! Glad it was helpful.
thanks
thank u!!
Of course!
You get a subscribe now.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
@@BudgetRecording You're welcome. This video is gonna seriously benefit my channel.
I'm so glad! If you have any questions or video idea, feel free to comment them on any video, I am always in need of more ideas...
Wish I could say it worked. I've now tried this one, a sibilance-cutter EQ by Josh Meyer, and another free de-esser I found on a RUclips video that got great reviews just like this. Nothing is even making the slightest dent that I can detect. Sounds like I'm doing nothing, yet Audacity shows that each has been applied. *sigh*
Somehow I just saw this,so it might be too late, but try listening on a different device. It's possible the issue is there, not in the recording.
damn bro thanx a lot
Of course. Glad it was helpful!
Awesome!
Thanks!
There is no such option for filter curve in effects.
Try looking for an effect call equalization, or something along those lines and make the same shape. They do the same thing, just with a different interface.
@@BudgetRecording Thank you!
@@BudgetRecording It worked! Thank you!
(edited below)this doesn't work for me. I'm looking for how to remove a wistling noise that i'm getting between my teeth on the " s " but i'm not getting that at all with these types of things
edited. after adding a second compressor, adding fade starting at 2000 creeping into 4000, it works. i needed two and to reduce gain as shown.
I'm not completely sure if this will work, but you could try experimenting with applying these effects to various frequencies and seeing what works best. It probably won't be perfect, but it might work.
@@BudgetRecording it definitely helps! Closer to normal, it's better than before.
@@BudgetRecording what worked was decreasing the starting frequency, 2k instead of 4k, increasing the ending frequency.
Glad to hear you found something that worked!
ASMR sound editing please
Great but i dont get it... why not just dl the De-esser plugin. its free & quick
The only reason to use this is if you're having issues installing a de-esser, or can't get one for whatever reason. If it's other frequencies that are lower, this might work better as well.
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
how Ironic - I can hardly hear you on this video
Yeah, I know that's an issue, when I make my next video I'm going to attempt to fix that.
For a person giving audio advice you produced a video with low audio that I can barely detect without maxing out my volume control
fucking brilliant
Good advice, but I can barely hear you
Thanks. And yes, I know, when I finally get motivation to make another video, that is one of the things I'm going to work on. Thanks for the feedback!