question about de-essing an effected vocal

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I've always thought of myself as a sibilant singer. My voice lacks low end end and strong midrange, and I use an MXL 2001 to make things worse (as soon as decide on a better mic for my voice, I'll get one). Anyway, while working on recordings I noticed my vocals do not become sibilant until I apply effects. No sibilance when the vocs are dry. Is it suggested practice to de-ess an effected vocal, or try tweaking the effect until the sibilance dissappears?
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werewolf
 
have you tried dropping eq at 12 khz (I think) or is it 8 khz? I forget
 
If you're talking about FX like 'delay' or 'reverb'... filter everything out of the send to the unit above 4kHz and you should be fine.
 
Yeah Fletch, that's exactly what I'm talking about. When you say to filter out everything above 4khz from the unit, do you mean the hi cut that is on the effects unit itself (in my case the Alesis midiverb 4)? I won't be mixing or recording for the next few days, but I'll try that the next time I do. I usually do use the hi cut, guess I've never reduced it that much though.

Thanks guys,
werewolf
 
This goes back to my question about running a de-esser on an effected (chorus, verb, delay) vocal track....just something I noticed and thought I'd share...
I once de-essed a vocal till I got it sounding right. Again, the vocal only became all spitty AFTER the effects were added. I then mixed down the whole song, converted to an MP3 to put on the web, and noticed at low mp3 setings (128bps and 96bps) all my S's were dropping out, sounded like I had a lisp. It didn't happen with any settings higher than that. Weird, huh?
 
Just cut the highs on the reverb itself or on the send going to the reverb. Reverb always makes sibilance worse.
 
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