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Mix Critiques

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Ruud Reiher

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redouan urriagli
Sep 19, 2021
Hi guys, I have a vocal I recorded and I tried to get rid of the harsh frequencies. I tend to have a lot of problems with the letters "v", "g" and "s". I use a pop filter when recording, even turning the microphone a bit, I use smooth operator plugin from baby audio, a de-esser and dynamic eq from fabfilter q3. And still I can clearly hear the harsh frequencies. Any of you has the same issue and found a way to fix this? Would love some input or some tips to fix this very very very annoying feature about my own voice😅

https://soundcloud.com/user-244180422/monceau-jarrive-vox
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Cam Patterson
Sep 20, 2021
I had this kind of issue with a (sub-optimally recorded, room resonances etc) female vocal that was harsh on F#. It seemed to smooth out after I ran it through a hardware Distressor (and I've also had luck with an old SPX990). Do you have some hardware you could try running it through? (a core part of my strategy is to rely on happy accidents from experimenting :-) )
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Kojei Kojima
Sep 20, 2021
What microphone did you use? To my ears it just have too much high frequency above 6kHz(especially around 10kHz). I think using simple high shelve EQ to attenuate massive high frequency could reduce such a harshness. Also you might want to treat a room acoustic where you recorded it, combfilter effect from bad room would spoil low frequency clarity.