Free Desesser Vst
Mike here, with a quick guide on the Best De-Esser VST Plugins. =) Recording good vocals in a studio (or your home studio), means having the vocalist fairly close to the microphone to get a good signal-to-noise ratio. This means you will inevitably get sibilance (harsh “S” sounds). To solve this you need a good De-Esser effect plugin in. “Sibilance is the most intuitive and transparent de-esser I've ever used. The thought and attention that went into the interface has resulted in an amazingly easy to use, super-quick, and above all. FabFilter Pro DS ($179) With its ‘Single Vocal’ detection algorithm, FabFilter Pro-DS accurately.
Ahh, sibilance. Crucial for intelligibility, but lethal in high doses. And if you’re stacking your vocal tracks, that goes triple.
The battle may be a little closer to won with the Tonmann De-Esser, a great little free plugin from Tonmann.
Check out the spiel from the website:
“Tonmann DeEsser is a basic high frequency dynamic processor VST plugin, called a DeEsser because it’s mainly designed to get rid of ‘stinging’ sibilants that may occur on vocals after compression or adding a high boost.”
“The plugin has been carefully designed to suppress any artificial or alienated sound that may arise under awkward situations with some other (even some hardware) DeEssers.”
Sounds good to me. Run it in mono or stereo, it features lookahead functionality and ‘listen’ mode.
Free Deesser Vst Plugin
This is the updated version, with a sexy new GUI from DeLaMancha.
Free Tonmann Deesser Vst Plugin
Get it here: https://www.tonmann.com/2015/07/18/free-tonmann-deesser-vst-plugin/