Awesome! I'm glad it helped and I pronounced your name correctly.

Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful!

I'm so glad it was helpful!

which one is that, could you send a link?

@@melovesblues YT won't let me post a link. Copy and paste in search bar, DeClicker For Free In Audacity! (Put on your good headphones!) Channel is by voice talent Joe Essay. He didn't send me. I just want to pass along the help. I was so frustrated by it. Best wishes

I appreciate the feedback! I would have just used a plugin, but I had gotten a request for not using an additional plugin.

@@BudgetRecording It's all good. There is a lot of information you guys share and we appreciate it.

I'm so glad it is helpful!

I'm so glad. To me audio editing is my favorite part!

Awesome, I'm glad it helped!

No problem. Thank you for the kind words!

Thanks! I'm really glad it works, especially better than a plugin!

I'm really glad this was of years for you!

I'm glad it worked for you!

Thank you so much! My next video is probably going to be a video on Shotcut, getting the screen to zoom in around the cursor, but after that, I'm going to probably do a video on altering how a voice sounds with equalization. If you have any idea, please let me know!

Of course! I'm glad it was helpful.

I believe for this video it was an Aston Stealth into a Zoom Livetrak L-20. For voice-overs, it is pretty overkill, so if you're looking for reccomendations, the Samson q2u is good, especially if you have a noisy recording environment. If you have a quieter space though, a Blue Snowball or Yeti are both good for their price. If you have a higher budget, a Focusrute Scarlett Solo with either a Shure SM58 (or SM57 if you're a musician) if your enilvironment is noisy, otherwise an AKGP120 or Audio Technica AT2020. For voice-overs, you really don't need to spend more than $200, but if you are a musician looking to record, you might end up spending more. I would also reccomend getting a pop filter as well, especially if you get the SM57. I have a few of these, would you like me to make a comparison video?

Duuuuude, thank you so much for the recommendations! And the comparison video would definitely be helpful. I've been looking to buy new parts for my pc and a decent quality budget mic is one of them.

Of course! I'm glad I could help!

That is BRILLIANT!

@@tristanogrambuckley4945 what's a little more (maybe a lot more) painstaking but effective is to not only decrease the dbs of sibilance as above but also manually cutting a slice out of especially bad sibilance--making it shorter. I have a tendency to drag out my SSSS. Cutting out a part in the middle of a sibilance makes if shorter and sounds better. there might be a way to do this with noise gate or whatever effect does that, but I haven't learned those effects.

@@Mike-ny6sf Thanks for the tip! I don't usually have too much duration on my sibilant S, so I don't think I'll need that, but boy does this Yeti microphone get /S/picy!

Another thing I'm trying is simply using the filter curve and knocking down the frequency where sibilance seem to be most prominent for my voice, but this doesn't seem to work as well as using noise reduction. All this, of course, is for my particular voice and for podcasts. Wouldn't know about using it for singing and especially for commercial voice over work.

@@tristanogrambuckley4945 Just for your info, I use an ATR 2500. It's inexpensive and seems to do ok for me. As with mics of this type, it minimizes room noise which is great but also has a proximity effect. I have to get within a couple inches to get reasonable gain-ugh! Fine for doing audio podcasts but a little annoying for video. Again, I have a very soft voice. A different mic might do me better for video.

No problem!

No problem! Glad I could help.

I'm not sure. See if there is a Graphic EQ. You will know you have it when you see an interface that has a bunch of vertical sliders, each labeled with a frequency.

@@BudgetRecording Thanks!

No problem! Glad it's working!

I'm glad it was helpful!

I would say do a similar thing, just experiment with the frequency you are adjusting. The CH is probably a slightly lower frequency than the SH is.

Without hearing it, it's tough to figure out what is, but I would guess it is due to too few treble frequencies, relative to everything else. Probably your best bet is to increase the makeup level on the compressor. I hope that helps!

@@BudgetRecording Thank you!!

Well hello there!

It sounds like you might have both tracks selected. If you double click on one track it should only select that track. Another way to get around this would be applying the filter curve to one, then adding the second track, potentially exporting (to save the filtered track) between.

I'm glad it was helpful!

Sorry, I'm just now seeing this. I'm guessing that the track you've cut the sibilance from you cut too much out of. I would try narrowing the frequency range that you cut out and see if that helps. It's hard to tell without hearing it though.

Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful!

Somehow I just saw this,so it might be too late, but try listening on a different device. It's possible the issue is there, not in the recording.

It doesn't matter too much, but I would do it earlier because then your ears won't have to suffer. Also, if you get used to hearing it the sibilant way, the better way probably won't sound very good and you would be less likely to fix the audio.

ok

Sorry, I'm a little unclear. Is tye issue that the curve isn't flat when you open the menu?

You should be able to click on the filter curve and then draw in the shape that I had, if I'm understanding you correctly.

@@BudgetRecording its ok i figured it our...thanx

I'm not completely sure if this will work, but you could try experimenting with applying these effects to various frequencies and seeing what works best. It probably won't be perfect, but it might work.

@@BudgetRecording it definitely helps! Closer to normal, it's better than before.

@@BudgetRecording what worked was decreasing the starting frequency, 2k instead of 4k, increasing the ending frequency.

Glad to hear you found something that worked!

By muffled, are you saying it is less clear, or there is a hiss? If it is just less clear, that is because you are compressing out the higher frequencies, making the audio less clear. The best way to do that is to either eq in more treble (high frequency) or redo the process, but with a more narrow frequency band.

Of course! Glad it was helpful.

Both tracks create the final product. What we are doing is separating the sibilance on to another track so we can effect it differently. When it is on the second track, we can compress that, and reduce the volume if the sibilance. I hope that made sense!

@@BudgetRecording So sorry - it still makes no sense. Are you playing both tracks at the same time? Which is the final product?

Don't worry about it. In the end, you use both tracks for the final product. What you are doing is removing the sibilance from the first track, and moving it to the second track. When you export, you are combining the two tracks.

When changing the settings on the effects, make sure to readjust the volume. You could also lower the overall output volume of Audacity before you export.

You will want to export both tracks. The reason you want both is because you split the first track into both, and you need both tracks for the normal sound.

Ya descubrí como hacerlo, volví a mirar el video!! A pesar de no hablar ingles me sirvió mucho tu video, eres un crack!! siempre tenia ese problema de las "s" y había visto métodos muy complicados y con tu tutorial quedo ESPECTACULAR, Gracias friend!!

@@SuperJAVIERSIYO Pues ahora tu me puedes explicar, pero en nuestro idioma que es lo que hace exactamente, no lo entiendo :( GRACIAS

@@rubenpoma5512 hola, pues básicamente lo que hace es "separar" el audio en dos partes, en una( la de arriba) quedan todos los tonos medios y graves, y en la pista de abajo quedan los bajos, es.decir, las.molestas "s" de esta manera a la pista de abajo le bajamos volumen y esto hará que reduzcan notablemente

@@BudgetRecording What about merging the two tracks together within audacity?

The only reason to use this is if you're having issues installing a de-esser, or can't get one for whatever reason. If it's other frequencies that are lower, this might work better as well.

Thanks! I appreciate it!

@@BudgetRecording You're welcome. This video is gonna seriously benefit my channel.

I'm so glad! If you have any questions or video idea, feel free to comment them on any video, I am always in need of more ideas...

Thanks!

Of course. Glad it was helpful!

Of course!

Try looking for an effect call equalization, or something along those lines and make the same shape. They do the same thing, just with a different interface.

@@BudgetRecording Thank you!

@@BudgetRecording It worked! Thank you!

Yeah, I know that's an issue, when I make my next video I'm going to attempt to fix that.

Thanks. And yes, I know, when I finally get motivation to make another video, that is one of the things I'm going to work on. Thanks for the feedback!