In this video, I understand better how to use De Esser than in your new video because you fucussed on one specific note from the vocals. It sounds SSSSSSSSSSSooo much better, thanks Dom.
Hi Dom. I found this extremely useful. Especially showing how the waveform looks different for the non-musical sounds. I could not fix a 'CH' with cubase deesser without killing the sound, as it seemed to be over a wide frequency range. I also added 'Goto Left locator' to the macro as I found it did not work unless the playhead was inside the selected range. Many thanks for sharing this.
Another very effective way: A linear phase de-esser - Copy your vocal track, flip the phase of the copy, high- and low pass it to the frequencies where you want your de-essing to happen (e.g . 5.5 khz - 11 khz) and send both tracks into a group. Automate the level of the copy until the "S" levels are ok for you. Due to phase cancelation you only effect the selected frequency range simply with the level of the track..
I'm definitely going to give this a try on the next song I mix. I'm currently working with someone whose recordings are sibilant to an extreme. The sibilant parts of the wav form are often the loudest parts. His performances are great though lol
@@EdwinDekker71 works with zero latency EQs too. But for multichannel recordings (e.g. drums) linear phase is saver. Just enable the linear phase switch of your EQ and bam your high and lowpass filters become linear phase. :D It's that easy, if you are using an EQ with that function. With this method you can also remove e.g. harshness of your cymbals or using a compressor instead of an EQ you can easily remove channel bleed (snare, hihat, oh etc.). In this case you control the amount of the effect with the threshold and the release of the compressor. Ratio would be highest possible and attack the fastest possible so you don't mess with your transients. No make up gain in the plug in. Try it.
I've always deessed vocals using 2 (or even 3) different DeEssers on the chain. it works pretty well for me, but this technique is pretty damn awesome and it will be super useful to tame vocal breaths too, since it´s something I always do manually just like you´re doing with the esses. Many thanks for this tip Dom!
Hello Dom, thank you for another trick to make work in cubase easier. Let me add a tip for german users (or other languages). If you' re are not using an english version of cubase, it looks to be difficult to implement the macro, because the commands have diffent names. The solution I found for this is quite easy: switch the language in user program setting in cubase to english. You have to restart cubase and then you can enter all commands like suggested in this clip. You can switch to your original language afterwards.
Straight Money here!!! Thank you for this hack, i had no idea about creating macros..... Editing is def a Labor of love, but its the best way to do it for sure! Dom u rock bro
Mr. Cubase, where would we be without you spitting out great tutorials at an insane pace. I hope Steinberg pays you enough for it, since they're not doing those vids for us.
I was totally sleeping on this, I just set it up in my own macros and this is a HUGE time saver. Definitely the kind of info you would usually need to pay for in a private class. Also I am so jealous of your production themed wardrobe.
For those on Mac wanting keep option+cmd+D shortcut: remember to switch off same shortcut in Launchpad & Dock settings. BTW Thanks a lot Dom! - it is a pleasure watching your videos :)
Brilliant! Thanks! Made the macro in Cubase now. :) Another skill acheived! Thanks a lot! As well, I didn't know about the multiple cross-fade function. :)
Thanks Dom! I've just spent two days editing 37 vocal parts in a project, using Spectralayers (in stand alone mode) to de-breath and de-noise and I was about to de-ess in Cubase when I saw this! I have always used my own key commands, but only recently started using macros and this will be a great addition to my growing list! p.s. I'm with you @ 14:10 in that there's something enjoyable and satisfying about performing repetitive tasks like these. One has to concentrate though, as it's easy to switch off and make a mistake!
Thanks for the tutorial! I was actually wondering about this since I am recording some amateur covers and sibilance is my major problem... Currently using REAPER but it works on pretty much the same way
The problem with clip gaining 'esses' is that if you use compression, the levels of the 'esses' can just come back up again. A more effective technique is to use a 4 band EQ to highlight the offensive frequencies (usually around 5k - 5.5.k) then use this as a sidechain function to compressor (put at the end of the chain). It will automatically turn down those frequencies.
All good.... BUT to create the Makro better use the right side select all actions with a shortcut to find out in the list: Go to “type in key;“ and press the shortcut then press “select“ near the arrow -> and you have the action in the list left selected to add it to your Makro. That's much faster than typing those in in the search!
Dom, I have learned so much from your videos!! Thank you!! I have one problem with the De-Ess macro, I have triple checked it, so I assume there is a setting in Cubase I am missing. I am a new Cubase user and loving it!! When I use the macro, everything works, but the screen moves to where the transport currently is located so I then have to scroll back to where I was or make sure to click to move the transport where I am De-Essing so I don't have to scroll. You don't have to do that in your video and from reading the comments, no one else seems to be having this issue. Obviously I am missing something easy. Thank you for all your help!!
niccccce... i wonder if steinberg will implement in cubase 11 or later something like automatic sibilance and breath detector and control them similar to melodyne 5 ,it will save so much time de-essing on file/event level. might be a useful feature,say take a section of several background vocal tracks and lower the s by 6 db in one go to all tracks
Dom, This is GENIUS! Thank you for the tip! Is there a way to create a macro key command for lowering or raising volume automation? ...1 db at a time? Can you help me figure this one out? I would be forever grateful!!!
Thanks Dom, great video. If the sibilance type waveforms are easily identified (albeit with some experience), can Cubase not be developed to be able to 'locate' ALL sibilance wafeform segments (with choice to agree or otherwise) and either one at a time, reduce in volume (amount is selectable) or them all in one key stroke? I will get into this manually for time being as I noted that after listening to a new mix of a recent song I have finished, there are too many S's, T's etc that somehow seem to be extremely noticeable. Thanks again.
dom have you tried envelope in direct of line F7 . my self i made this macro but now i found envelopes more smooth and effective breathing, dessesing , comprossing
Hi Dom, been watching your channel for a good while and learned a lot. Thank you for such a great video. Just a have question regarding this technique. Would you recommend putting slight deeser on vocal bus after using your technique? I mean some subtle deeser without any heavy settings just in case? Or this technique doesn't require any deeser plugin just in case anyway? Thank you
Great video! Really I have a doubt. When u shift x and split audio, will u leave the events the same are u cross fade r fade in r out to prevent it from click sounds. It simply we can leave as such ?
In Photoshop for example, you can just RECORD some manipulations, they call this a "script" or "action", then save all the manipulations with a shortcut. It would be so great than Cubase could do this, less complicated to create an automation...
Is there a way to use the Pencil tool to draw it in like the way Pro Tools clip-gain can be drawn in? It's so fast, efficient, and most of all, gives far more control but without any extra friction? I've always been doing the method shown here when using Cubase (or similar in Logic minus the convenience of the macro). But Pro Tools clip gain drawing is still so much faster and more accurate -- if anyone knows how to make Cubase behave this way, I'd be super super grateful to know!
Great tutorial, thank you, Dom! I try to minimize having my track chopped into little pieces though, and it looks like the macro technique does that. I wonder if there are macro commands to glue them back together, hmm ...!
I totally see your point. What I do is this: do my chopping, then duplicate the track version. Then on the duplicate select all chopped events and use Bounce in place ;) problem solved. And if you want to go back to the chopped version just go in the previous version. Check my video about Creating the perfect take to check what I talk about when it comes to versions :)
Hi Dom. Thank you so much for this super video. I have a question and it is that I can't find in Spanish "Auto select events under cusror" so when I use the command it cuts only the part of the audio and the I have to select again and use the Comand. Then it works. In Spanish i only find "Select events under cursor". Can you help me out? Thank you so much.
@sadhana, when you do lots of cuts you might experience clicks and pops at the edit point. To remedy this you can select the audio events that you cut and hit X on your keyboard. This will create a crossfade so the clicks and pops will be fixed ;)
In this video, I understand better how to use De Esser than in your new video because you fucussed on one specific note from the vocals. It sounds SSSSSSSSSSSooo much better, thanks Dom.
I've been manually de-essing like this for a good while now but the macro is a brilliant time saving idea. Thanks Dom.
Hi Dom. I found this extremely useful. Especially showing how the waveform looks different for the non-musical sounds.
I could not fix a 'CH' with cubase deesser without killing the sound, as it seemed to be over a wide frequency range.
I also added 'Goto Left locator' to the macro as I found it did not work unless the playhead was inside the selected range.
Many thanks for sharing this.
I have done manual de-essing without the macro, now it is going to be so much easier and quicker, thank you so much, Dom.
Another very effective way: A linear phase de-esser - Copy your vocal track, flip the phase of the copy, high- and low pass it to the frequencies where you want your de-essing to happen (e.g . 5.5 khz - 11 khz) and send both tracks into a group. Automate the level of the copy until the "S" levels are ok for you. Due to phase cancelation you only effect the selected frequency range simply with the level of the track..
I'm definitely going to give this a try on the next song I mix. I'm currently working with someone whose recordings are sibilant to an extreme. The sibilant parts of the wav form are often the loudest parts. His performances are great though lol
How is it linear phase if you're using a regular high pass filter🙄
@@EdwinDekker71 works with zero latency EQs too. But for multichannel recordings (e.g. drums) linear phase is saver. Just enable the linear phase switch of your EQ and bam your high and lowpass filters become linear phase. :D
It's that easy, if you are using an EQ with that function. With this method you can also remove e.g. harshness of your cymbals or using a compressor instead of an EQ you can easily remove channel bleed (snare, hihat, oh etc.). In this case you control the amount of the effect with the threshold and the release of the compressor. Ratio would be highest possible and attack the fastest possible so you don't mess with your transients. No make up gain in the plug in. Try it.
@@xXValomatXx I'll try it ! merci beaucoup !
I've always deessed vocals using 2 (or even 3) different DeEssers on the chain. it works pretty well for me, but this technique is pretty damn awesome and it will be super useful to tame vocal breaths too, since it´s something I always do manually just like you´re doing with the esses. Many thanks for this tip Dom!
Hello Dom, thank you for another trick to make work in cubase easier.
Let me add a tip for german users (or other languages). If you' re are not using an english version of cubase, it looks to be difficult to implement the macro, because the commands have diffent names. The solution I found for this is quite easy: switch the language in user program setting in cubase to english. You have to restart cubase and then you can enter all commands like suggested in this clip. You can switch to your original language afterwards.
One of these things just sitting in front of you but you never thought about ... Genious !!!!
You are such an expert Dom! I wish we could have more videos from you to watch more often your lovely face! 🥰
Bro you're a life saver for cubase users
No more de-esser plugins. This is the way. Thanks Dom!
De-essers worked for decades before you could do this in a daw.
Nobody ever did this with tape & a console
Another time more than just helpful. Thank You, Dom!
Thank you Dom for the Cubase shortcut trick
God bless you man you are big help for us thanks
Thanks for that bro!
Wow the best way to this:) Thanks Dom
Straight Money here!!! Thank you for this hack, i had no idea about creating macros..... Editing is def a Labor of love, but its the best way to do it for sure! Dom u rock bro
A treasure of advices! Thanks Dom.
Very useful Tutorial .... Thanks Dom 👍👍
Great tip!
Awesome video! Love the Macro, thanks for sharing :-)
THAK YOU FOR THIS DOM
Thanks!
Mr. Cubase, where would we be without you spitting out great tutorials at an insane pace. I hope Steinberg pays you enough for it, since they're not doing those vids for us.
Very helpful. Thank you Dom!
Thanks Dom. Huge help!
Love u bro!!!! thanks 🙏🙏
Awesome THHHHHXXXXX
Thank You mr Dom!! You are my Cubase Hero!! Amazing Tutorials 👍👍👍😇🙏🏻🍻
Very good information
Made the macro, tried in on my new song, works and sounds great! Thanks for that tip!
This was a nice one.
Thank You!!!!!
Fantastic! Just what I needed to know! Thanks. 👍
Thanks a lot!
Added that to my macros! Thanks a lot Dom!
I was totally sleeping on this, I just set it up in my own macros and this is a HUGE time saver. Definitely the kind of info you would usually need to pay for in a private class. Also I am so jealous of your production themed wardrobe.
thanks great tutorial , Dom !
DOM....this was BOOM 👈🏾🧢!!!
Awesome technique that I moved to glove...😉
Cheers man... and THANKS for that GEM!!!
Great Tutorial by the way!
This is really helpful, thanks so much!
It's like when you came to learn about deessing, but became a PRO even in macros) Thanx!
For those on Mac wanting keep option+cmd+D shortcut: remember to switch off same shortcut in Launchpad & Dock settings.
BTW Thanks a lot Dom! - it is a pleasure watching your videos :)
Brilliant! Thanks! Made the macro in Cubase now. :) Another skill acheived! Thanks a lot!
As well, I didn't know about the multiple cross-fade function. :)
I luove the 'reduce the volume manually on SSSSS' technique :D
Thanks Dom! I've just spent two days editing 37 vocal parts in a project, using Spectralayers (in stand alone mode) to de-breath and de-noise and I was about to de-ess in Cubase when I saw this! I have always used my own key commands, but only recently started using macros and this will be a great addition to my growing list!
p.s. I'm with you @ 14:10 in that there's something enjoyable and satisfying about performing repetitive tasks like these. One has to concentrate though, as it's easy to switch off and make a mistake!
Dom: You´re the Best! Another perfect Video!
Thanks Dom, this is a great tip! To be honest I avoided manual dessing as it was so time consuming and tedious and this really makes it worthwhile
Thank you
Wow!!!
I couldn't imagine it, before this video Dom!!
Great!
Goodbye De-esser!!!
I wanna know more about macros in Cubase how you utilize them and stuff. This is very useful thank you!
Good job
Thanks for the tutorial! I was actually wondering about this since I am recording some amateur covers and sibilance is my major problem... Currently using REAPER but it works on pretty much the same way
Great trick. Thanks so much
loooooooooove!
MEGA BOOM!
Thank you Dom! Great video!
I always used automation😄
Thanks Dom!!!
de-essing is really sexy to me, especially when it works lol 🔥🔥
Thank you Dom
Thanks!! Have you test de Pro-DS for remove harshness of vocals?
The problem with clip gaining 'esses' is that if you use compression, the levels of the 'esses' can just come back up again. A more effective technique is to use a 4 band EQ to highlight the offensive frequencies (usually around 5k - 5.5.k) then use this as a sidechain function to compressor (put at the end of the chain). It will automatically turn down those frequencies.
thx!
Since there’s no macro in Logic, I simply turn on automation and turn the volume down. Then I copy paste each time I have to.
thank U very much
All good.... BUT to create the Makro better use the right side select all actions with a shortcut to find out in the list:
Go to “type in key;“ and press the shortcut then press “select“ near the arrow -> and you have the action in the list left selected to add it to your Makro.
That's much faster than typing those in in the search!
Pros use spectral clean or attach an eq on object
best tutorial for cubase on the internet are from this channel
Dom, I have learned so much from your videos!! Thank you!! I have one problem with the De-Ess macro, I have triple checked it, so I assume there is a setting in Cubase I am missing. I am a new Cubase user and loving it!! When I use the macro, everything works, but the screen moves to where the transport currently is located so I then have to scroll back to where I was or make sure to click to move the transport where I am De-Essing so I don't have to scroll. You don't have to do that in your video and from reading the comments, no one else seems to be having this issue. Obviously I am missing something easy. Thank you for all your help!!
Check your preferences.
niccccce... i wonder if steinberg will implement in cubase 11 or later something like automatic sibilance and breath detector and control them similar to melodyne 5 ,it will save so much time de-essing on file/event level.
might be a useful feature,say take a section of several background vocal tracks and lower the s by 6 db in one go to all tracks
Awesome!👍😀
Very nice one, thanks a lot !!!
Thank you for the gift of time!
Thanks for this
Dom, This is GENIUS! Thank you for the tip! Is there a way to create a macro key command for lowering or raising volume automation? ...1 db at a time? Can you help me figure this one out? I would be forever grateful!!!
I love you Sigala you are the best
Thanks Dom, great video. If the sibilance type waveforms are easily identified (albeit with some experience), can Cubase not be developed to be able to 'locate' ALL sibilance wafeform segments (with choice to agree or otherwise) and either one at a time, reduce in volume (amount is selectable) or them all in one key stroke? I will get into this manually for time being as I noted that after listening to a new mix of a recent song I have finished, there are too many S's, T's etc that somehow seem to be extremely noticeable. Thanks again.
thanks for this macro!
Yesss please!
Ssssssssuperb tutorial. ThatSssssssss me doing it thissssssss way from now on!
well done!!!!
dom have you tried envelope in direct of line F7 . my self i made this macro but now i found envelopes more smooth and effective breathing, dessesing , comprossing
Another awesome way! Indeed!!!
sssssssssssweet
Hahahahaha sssssso happy you dig it!
BOOM !!
Nice. But what is Slingblade? Thanks.
They all LISP! after De'es
Hi Dom, been watching your channel for a good while and learned a lot. Thank you for such a great video. Just a have question regarding this technique. Would you recommend putting slight deeser on vocal bus after using your technique? I mean some subtle deeser without any heavy settings just in case? Or this technique doesn't require any deeser plugin just in case anyway? Thank you
Good question… (?)
DOPE!
Do you have a video on de-essing on Cubasis 3 iOS?
Great video! Really I have a doubt. When u shift x and split audio, will u leave the events the same are u cross fade r fade in r out to prevent it from click sounds. It simply we can leave as such ?
"It's actually kinda enjoyable!" EPIC 14:11
In Photoshop for example, you can just RECORD some manipulations, they call this a "script" or "action", then save all the manipulations with a shortcut. It would be so great than Cubase could do this, less complicated to create an automation...
Is there a way to use the Pencil tool to draw it in like the way Pro Tools clip-gain can be drawn in? It's so fast, efficient, and most of all, gives far more control but without any extra friction? I've always been doing the method shown here when using Cubase (or similar in Logic minus the convenience of the macro). But Pro Tools clip gain drawing is still so much faster and more accurate -- if anyone knows how to make Cubase behave this way, I'd be super super grateful to know!
Amazing time saver! Great for the lazy people like me. :D
Sssuper cool macro!
Great tutorial, thank you, Dom!
I try to minimize having my track chopped into little pieces though, and it looks like the macro technique does that.
I wonder if there are macro commands to glue them back together, hmm ...!
I totally see your point. What I do is this: do my chopping, then duplicate the track version. Then on the duplicate select all chopped events and use Bounce in place ;) problem solved. And if you want to go back to the chopped version just go in the previous version. Check my video about Creating the perfect take to check what I talk about when it comes to versions :)
That sounds great, Dom, thank you!
an other way is to change the lyrics ! lol ! thanks for your videos !
cool
Hi Dom. Thank you so much for this super video. I have a question and it is that I can't find in Spanish "Auto select events under cusror" so when I use the command it cuts only the part of the audio and the I have to select again and use the Comand. Then it works. In Spanish i only find "Select events under cursor". Can you help me out? Thank you so much.
Hey Dom I did not get that "crossfade" part...can you please explain that to me.
@@AaronHubley thanks for the reply.. It really helped👍
@sadhana, when you do lots of cuts you might experience clicks and pops at the edit point. To remedy this you can select the audio events that you cut and hit X on your keyboard. This will create a crossfade so the clicks and pops will be fixed ;)
@@DomSigalas I totally understand it now! Thanks! 👍
What do you do about heavy breathing? Cut it out or do the same thing as in this video?
Exactly! It works with everything!
I usually just hang up. Well...maybe not always but most of the time. 😉