Lispy BKG singer - a blessing?

[FreshSkweez]

I had the weirdest thing in my career happen to me the other night. I'm finishing a record and we're down to background vocals now. The lead singer is okay but nothing special. The material's great though... Sorta Bon Jovi meet Coldplay if you can picturre that ;-).

So the drummer comes in to track some backgrounds. He talks to me over the mic I get levels and he starts singing through the track to warm up. Not only is his timing dead on the spot (drummers... ) but for some reason he blends soooo well with the LD track. When I solo his track it turns out he has the worst lisp ever when he's singing... When he talks he's perfectly fine but when he sings... picture a 902 SMASHING the crap out of the sibbilance.

The chain's U87 (no pop-filter)-LA610-Aurora 16-Nuendo (no, there's no de-esser I forgot to patch out)... and mind you the 610 is the pre I worry 'bout sibbilance the most with.

Now comping his trax was a dream. You know how you'd have a perfect backgound track but since different people's 's'es and 'z's differ in length they stick out time-wise and it takes that extra effort at mix stage to get'em under control? None of that... Pure sustained notes with perfect timing. How cool is that?!