How do you get rid of the "sss" sound?

AaronGeorge

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In cool edit how do you get rid of that "sss" sound? I used the remove Hiss function and "spitspat" setting on Graphic Equalizer but still no luck...any help?


thanks

-aaron
 
Well I don't think the program is the problem but your rough recording.
What kind of mic are you using and in what environment?
 
What are we talking about here? Is this noise in the recording, or siblinance on vocals, or something else?

For the latter then you want to be looking at improving your recording techinque and/or using a de-esser which is a specialised compressor for removing sibilance - these come in many different forms and work in many different ways; some are like sidechained compressors which are triggered by certain frequencies, while others a multiband compressors which only act on the sibilant frequencies. In most cases normal EQ won't work nearly as well as one of these. I quite often use Spitfish which is a free VST de-esser plugin from the digitalfishphones plugin collection.

If its hissing/noise in the recording then you need to be looking at how that noise is getting into your signal chain and get that sorted.
 
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adobe audition has a built in preset under dynamics for de-essing... if yoru looking to remove line hiss/line noise... highlight a couple seconds of "blank space" and save a sample of the fft noise in the NR effect... go back and highlight the whole track, go back to FFT NR and select your saved nise sample... and de-nise the whole track... it works like magic once you get used to tweaking the settings.

I have used it to remove all MANNER of things that I didnt think I could get rid of.

tip: for typical line noise, the presets work fine... if you wanna take out sneakers thumping in a clothes dryer (dont ask...lol), you CAN do it, you just have to apply the reduction in stages, and spend a couple hours tweaking.
 
if it's just the room noise go into edit mode; select a silent portion of the track(no vocals all background noise); effects; restoration; capture noise reduction profile; allow it to run then, select the entire track; effects; noise reduction profile; ok and that should remove the steady hiss.
 
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