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Old 3rd February 2007   #26
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Originally Posted by Stitch333 View Post
As was probably mentioned before, the mic used and selective eqing while tracking will have a big effect on the pressence (or lack of) sibilence. Personally, Ive never used deessing below 7k for male or female vocs. Also, I agree its good to solo and work each track but in my experience working with the vocals, after each track is tweaked, monitoring the whole song is very important for a balenced mix. Vocals that sound good solo'd can easily fight for space in a mix once added with everything else.
The solo is strickly for finding the most sibilant freq. I put the track back in and ad or take away according to how it "sits". I use a Neuman u87 and m149 with an Avalon 737 mic pre. Sibilance is not too bad with those mics. But I have mixed stuff for others that is horribly sibilant.
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